Hello dear IPSFers,

It is once more with real pleasure that my team and I edited this
newsletter, number 86. Once more we offer an edition full of
interesting news from different areas of IPSF. I really hope you
will enjoy going through these pages. I would also like to use
this little corner to ask you if you already booked your flight for
the IPSF World Congress in Thailand! If you are a pharmacy
student you are more than welcome to attend this event. More
--- info is available at www.ipsf2011.org. I definitely hope to meet
you there, in Hat Yai!
2-3 Young Hugs’ Bastien Venot son of Medias and Publications
Pharmacist IPSF Chairper
Group

4 Essay Call

5 EMRO Ask Your
Pharmacist

Dear IPSFers,
6-7 EPSA Updates
It is a great pleasure to introduce you to this edition of the IPSF
Newsletter. In this edition you will find news from behind the
scenes in the Federation, as well as learn what IPSF is
8-9 Moving On II preparing for you. I would like to thank everyone who was
involved in preparing this edition of the IPSF Newsletter,
especially Bastien Venot, IPSF Chairperson of Media and
Publications. I know that you will enjoy reading!
10-11 Public Health
Updates In addition to our usual duties we have recently been trying to
make the work of the Federation more effective and move IPSF
towards a brighter future. Our team began creating the mid-term
strategy for the Federation, which our successors should
12-13 Stop TB Essay continue in the upcoming years in order to ensure continuity of
work and to move the Federation into a position of being one of
the well known, respected associations in the healthcare field.
We have also tried to strengthen our relationship with our
14-15 SEC Meeting partner organizations to make IPSF a more respected name.
The sponsorship strategy was developed in order to bring more
money into the Federation so that we can afford to have more,
high quality projects in the future. I hope that this initiative will
15 Internal
take the name of the Federation to the next level and ensure
Relations that the voice of pharmacy students will be heard everywhere.
Corner
As the future of our profession, we should take the initiative and
vocalize our wishes and needs. We are the ones who should
form the profession where we will be working. With our
16 IPSF Tribute to enthusiasm and energy we can bring change to our career. IPSF
Jos van is the best platform in which to make a difference. Tell use what
der Zandt you desire and I can promise we will make the student voice
heard!
Yours in IPSF,
Jan Röder
IPSF President
 Young Pharmacist Group
Dear IPSFers,
Let me introduce you the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) and especially Young
Pharmacist Group.

Who we are
YPG is the network of young pharmacists within the
Federation that gathers all the pharmacists in the world. FIP
Members who are under 35 years of age or who graduated
from pharmacy school less than 5 years ago qualify to
participate in the FIP Young Phamacists' Group - you are
automatically a member FREE OF CHARGE with your FIP
membership!
Networking
Our YPG members can be found everywhere in FIP. FIP has two boards – the Board of
Pharmaceutical Science (BPS) and the Board of Pharmaceutical Practice (BPP). Both of the boards
are divided according to members´ interests. We communicate with our members via a platform
called the members-only discussion forum. Moreover, there are pharmacists´ associations in the
world who are members of their pharmacy chambers and therefore members of FIP. These young
pharmacists pass information on to their colleagues.
Structure
The YPG Steering Committee is the leadership group of
YPG, similar to IPSF Executive. There are four members of
Steering Committee in YPG. President, Projects´
Coordinator, Working Group Coordinator and Public
Relations´ Officer. The business of YPG is conducted during
the annual business meeting held during the FIP Annual
World Congress. All YPG members present at FIP Congress
are invited to participate in the business meeting. The
Working Group Coordinator has the group of experienced
YPGers who help with the documentation for YPG.
Communication
YPG produces an e-newsletter several times per year, which is distributed to the members via the
discussion forum. This year we are releasing a translated version for the first time into Arabic, French,
Spanish and Portuguese. Also, you can read more about us at FIP pages as well as attend the
congress sessions where we are partners for the session or we lead session
ourselves.
FIP Congress
FIP Annual Congress is a great way for students to get involved with FIP-
YPG. At Congress, YPG and IPSF hold joint social events (including an
international evening), and share similar interests and focus for educational
 Young Pharmacist Group
sessions. YPG helps the transition from being a student to a qualified
pharmacist and helps to make FIP more welcoming and less intimidating.
Every YPG member has been a student recently so, we understand
student needs and in addition to the challenges of being a new
pharmacist.
The YPG has proposed programming for FIP Annual Congress in
Hyderabad, themed “Generics and the patient experience: The
pharmacist's role in ensuring safe and effective medicines use”. YPG is
looking for practitioners and scientists to provide education on this
important topic for patient care. Other programming includes: Your
career in Industrial Pharmacy - From drug development to drug
distribution, Trends in Community Pharmacy – Debating the future of the
profession: Forum for policy makers; Competition for the best oral
industrial presentation [Short Oral Communications]; Developing young
academics through networking and mentoring.
Prizes and awards
FIP brings the opportunities to young pharmacists also via grants and prizes.
YPG Professional Innovation Grant (a project set in partnership with the FIP Foundation for
Education and Research). The Grant consists of € 1000 for the implementation of a project by a
young pharmacist/pharmaceutical scientist. Projects can stem from any field of pharmacy (pharmacy
practice, pharmaceutical science and/or pharmacy education) but should directly or indirectly benefit
or improve health of communities and demonstrate the value-add of pharmacy on health. Pending
the acceptance of a project report, the Grant recipient may additionally be awarded a fully-paid trip
to attend the Centennial FIP Congress in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in September 2012.
Mike How Travel Award (created in 2007 by the Industrial Pharmacy Section (IPS) of the
International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). The Mike How Travel Award is granted to young
pharmacists or pharmacy students who have shown keen interest and passion for Industrial
Pharmacy. The award consists of an amount of up to 1000 Euros to be used in support of transport,
accommodation, and registration for the annual FIP
Congress, free attendance to the IPS workshops at
the FIP Congress, where applicable and free
attendance to the IPS Section dinner at the FIP
Congress
Leadership opportunities
Within YPG it all starts! Your professional career
growth is in your hands. There are leadership
opportunities within FIP and you may start with Young
Pharmacists´ Group. Feel free to contact us at
ypg@fip.org for further information. We will be happy
to help you find your way to international pharmacy.
t Group
Young Pharmacis
 Critical Appraisal Essay Call
Aim of the call:
This venture of IPSF aims at identifying and encouraging
potential successful pharmacists at an early stage of their
careers to be provocative, idealistic and passionate about their
thoughts towards pharmacy profession.
Call description:
IPSF is inviting all you enthusiastic students and recent
graduates to share your knowledge, opinions and views on any
one the following topics:
- Pharmacy in My Generation's Perspective'
- How my education has prepared me/helped me to become a
pharmacist?
- How does pharmacy save lives in my country?
Through these topics, we are expecting you to pen down your
unique opinion about pharmacy as a profession in your
perspective and unique analysis of how you would justify it as
being diverse and novel from the previous generations. A
detailed overview of transition of various phases would provide
a base for mapping the transition. Also, it is very important to
include your outlook towards the future of our profession and
your thoughts for improvising the current trends you mention in your essay. It is important also
to have references in your essay.
Prizes:
The prize is finalized as being 1 free registration, air fare, visa, and accommodation to the Eastern
Mediterranean Pharmaceutical Symposium (EMPS) in Mid-July at Doha, Qatar. For more
information, please visit http://www.emps2011-ipsf.org/
Prof. Ian Bates has agreed to publish your essay in PEJ. (PEJ is a peerreview journal and open
access to all http://pharmacyeducation.fip.org/, register for free and you will be able to access all
the articles published.)
Collaboration:
IPSF is collaborating with FIP WHO UNESCO Pharmacy Education Taskforce (PET). Once you
have submitted your essay, an IPSF executive member and a PET representative; Prof. Futter
along with the IPSF Chairperson of Pharmacy Education, will choose the winner of this call and
forward it to Prof. Ian Bates, the Editor-in-Chief of the Pharmacy Education Journal (PEJ) who
would suggest some minor edits for the essay to be able to be published.
For the authors:
In order to make sure that your essay is chosen and possibly the winner, check the following
guidelines - http://pharmacyeducation.fip.org/for-authors/
Deadline:
Email Word document (2003/2007/2010) by May 1, 2011 00:00 (GMT+0) to education@ipsf.org
 Ask Your Pharmacist

AYP CAMPAIGN AND SURVEY

Review:

Ask Your Pharmacist (AYP) is a project recently initiated

by IPSF EMRO. The campaign’s goal is to increase the
percentage of well-informed patients who are diagnosed
with one of the following common diseases: diabetes,
hypertension, and arthritis. We aim to go public, to change
the conception that a pharmacist is just a drug seller. The
AYP campaign is aiming to extend that to a much stronger
description and role. The new slogan we want is
“Pharmacist for counseling, dispensing, and promoting
public health”.

AYP’s mission is to give patients with various diseases (acute and/or chronic) an opportunity to
ask questions about their conditions, to receive professional advice for a better understanding of
their condition and to achieve an optimal lifestyle. Patients will also have to fill out a questionnaire
with certain questions indicating certain diseases. The final data will be shared with
national/international health organizations.

AYP’s program:

1- This event is designed to last for 4 days and 3 nights, excluding the students’ training sessions.
2- The recommended training period for volunteers is 2-3 days.
3- The AYP campaign is expected to be carried out during the period of mid March 2011-mid June
2011.
If your association would like to take the opportunity to be one of the initiators of this project during
the pilot stage and have your members professionally trained for this project by IPSF EMRO, do
not hesitates to contac the IPSF EMRO Regional projects Officer: Mr. Nimer Alkhatib through this
address: rpo@emro.ipsf.org.

Stay tuned, the best is yet to come.

 EPSA - an association moving forward
Dear IPSF friends,

The biggest threat of the development of any students’ association is the big turnover of the people
involved in the boards. I believe that development of an association is crucial in order for the members
to continuously gain from being part of it. Throughout this year, EPSA has shown that great things
can be accomplished even in only one year. EPSA has developed in many areas, and I am proud to
be able to tell you what has been going on recently.

The most recent EPSA event was the EPSA Annual Reception (AR) held in the European Parliament
in Brussels on the 28th of February this year, with the topic “The pharmacist of tomorrow – Developing
new roles to meet professional challenges”. The event was
hosted by MEP (Member of Parliament) Oana Antonescu. Du-
ring this event, the EPSA team has the opportunity to present
the development achieved during the current mandate to pro-
fessional associations, stakeholders, other students' associa-
tions and, of course, to our members - European pharmacy
students. EPSA also offered a very interesting panel discus-
sion with representatives from main European pharmacy as-
sociations (Community Pharmacy, Faculties of Pharmacy,
Hospital Pharmacy, Industrial Pharmacy and Student repre-
sentative from EPSA). Mr Jürgen Tiedje, from DG Internal Mar-
ket of the European Commission, gave a presentation on the revision of the Directive on Recognition
of Professional Qualifications, in which the results of the revision will potentially have impact on the
way the recognition of pharmacy diploma will be carried out in Europe.

The Annual Reception attracted several guests representing main European institutions and asso-
ciations, and there were also several EPSA members present. In total over 80 guests attended the
AR. The event is considered to be a great success for EPSA.

The newly created Educational Board in EPSA is really showing results these months. New projects
have been created, and the already existing projects have been growing.

oBIGsity, an anti-obesity campaign, has just been released from

the Public Health and Social Services section of EPSA. The oBIG-
sity project aims to make people aware of the increasing rate of obe-
sity cases. We believe that both students and people in general
should know the consequences of this condition, and most impor-
tantly, how to prevent it. The main days of this campaign was 22th
- 24th of February, and some member associations are organising
it these days. EPSA provided the promotional and informational ma-
 EPSA - an association moving forward
terial for the campaign, in addition to a suggestion on how to carry it out adaptable to each associa-
tion’s possibilities and conditions.

Another project that is growing fast and that has a great impact
on our members is the EPSA Training Project. At the moment
the trainer team consists of around 20 trainers, increasing after
each TNT (Training New Trainers) event. This project provides
our students with the opportunity to develop skills that are im-
portant, but that are not usually provided in our curricula - like
Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Awareness, Leadership, Net-
working, Time Management, Presentation Skills and Group Dy-
namics. These trainings are done during EPSA events as well
as locally during members’ events or especially organised trai-
ning events. Another important part of the Training Project is
to lead the Next Generation Programme.

EPSA is also developing new projects in the Education and Professional Affairs and Science sec-
tions. The EduProf section has developed some new projects, where Skype chat with professionals
and Evaluation of CV are two of the newly introduced projects. The Annual EPSA Science Day or-
ganised at the Annual Congress is evolving, and consists of both oral and poster presentations of
science work done by EPSA members.

One of the currently most successful EPSA projects is the IMP (Individual Mobility Project). It is gro-
wing rapidly because of the efforts of the IMP Coordinators and the EPSA team. It allows our mem-
bers to do a paid traineeship in another country in order to gain experience within an area of the
pharmacy profession they find interesting. IMP also represents a unique opportunity for students
and recent graduates in gaining valuable impressions and experience about foreign European coun-
tries, their customs and cultures as well as learning and getting to know the European diversity. The
first IMP placement was offered in 2009, and at the moment over 25 placements have been offered
- with a rapid growth in the opening of placements.

As we are approaching our Annual Congress (that will be held in Lisbon,

Portugal this April) and hence elections of the next EPSA team, I am al-
ready very curious and anxious to see the work and progress of next
year’s team. At the moment we have started the Next Generation Pro-
gramme, which allows the members that are interested to get to know
EPSA better and also to prepare them for becoming a part of the next
EPSA team.

kaas
Yours in EPSA, Anette Aaland Kro
10/2011
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 Moving On II
History
Prof. Ian Bates and Dr. Catherine Duggan conceptualized the
Moving On projects in 2001. Moving On is a part of IPSF
efforts in collaboration initially with The School of Pharmacy,
University of London in improving the pharmacy education
system globally and highlighting the prospects for
improvement in the education fields. It was initiated in 2001
at the 47th IPSF World Congress in Cairo, Egypt. And series
of three projects were pursued:
Moving On I Academic mobility 2002-03
Moving On II The student learning experience 2004 onwards
Moving On III Migration intentions of pharmacy students 2004-05

Moving On II
"Moving On II" allows world-wide comparisons of the learning experiences of students enrolled in
pharmacy programs. It is the first to make international comparisons in the field of pharmacy
education and is the largest study of its type to date. Data collected will be used as a tool for
education advancement. Students have a voice that can be responsible for shaping their future.
Engaging with associations is one way to be heard.

Rationale for development of MO II

Change is constant in the field of education. There is much interest in the evolution of pharmacy
education as health policy world-wide becomes more focused on extending the roles of pharmacy
practitioners. Curriculum revamping every few years is very essential, and keeping the concerned
department abreast of all the updates to lead to an effective curriculum design and delivery. This
project is focused on comparing students’ learning experience globally, determine students’
aspirations and provide evidence that would aid in bringing about potential changes and open the
doors for scope of improvement.

Aims
1. To determine pharmacy students’ perceptions of their learning experiences and quality of
education;
2. To compare and contrast learning experiences of students enrolled in pharmacy degree and
diploma programs (that would lead to the attainment of a pharmacist license) across the world;
3. To examine the quality of education from students’ perspectives.

Work / Results achieved so far with the 2010/2011 online survey

Up to the 15th of March 2011, 767 replies were gathered from 53 countries. The Graph 1 shows the
number of replies from each participating country, the black line means 25 replies.
 Moving On II

Graph 1 - Distribution of participants globally.

Methods
Pharmacy students have been completing the Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) together
with additional items about demographics (age, gender, part-time work, country and university of
study), since 2004. Until 2008 10,000 students have shared their learning experiences and in
2010/2011 767 students have replied to the online survey, so far. After submitting their views on the
online survey, the results will be analyzed with a statistical software packaged called SPSS and
published in a journal of the field.

Future goals
Future work will include obtaining replies from a more representative group of students from each
pharmacy course in universities around the world. In order to provide a more complete and reliable
dataset and to clarify some of the issues that have rose from the data so far.

Continuing MO II
To strengthen the process of data analysis and create robust conclusions that would aid in curriculum
development, we have re-launched this project headed by Andreia Bruno (FIP Pharmacy Education
Taskforce, education@fip.org) and Francisco Pereira (IPSF Moving On Coordinator 2010-11,
movingon@ipsf.org).
The survey is available as an online version to make it easier and simpler. If you would like to
participate again or the first time please click on the link - http://bit.ly/g9KtwO
Tell us how you feel about your learning experience, what you think it can be different, what you like
to see in a near future... Remember that the students of today will be the pharmacists of tomorrow!
Grab the IPSF experience and be change-makers!

Dimple Modi tion

of Pharmacy Educa
IPSF Chairperson
Andreia Bruno
rch Coordinator
FIP Project Resea
 Public Health
We have successfully added three members to the
committee. We are also in the process of publishing the
semi-annual newsletter, and the next task will be to get
the ACDC website up and running. Sections of the web-
site will be given to committee members to work on, and
I will be working to have it completely finished by 30
April 2011. In addition, I am working on creating an on-
line CE course pharmacists can take for credit towards
keeping their licenses current. This is a long, compli-
cated process, but I am hoping to have it coordinated Christine Cooper n Coordinator 2010-11
with either APhA or ASHP by this summer. Anti-Counterfeit Drug Campaig
Counterfeit@ipsf.org

Shortly after the congress, my subcommittee and I started to prepare for World AIDS Day
(WAD). This also means the preparation of the HIV/AIDS campaign kit. The kit is composed
of a number of different publications, which include posters, fact cards, a step-by-step cam-
paign booklet, myths and facts cards, and of course, the IPSF Worldwide WAD Project- the
Human Ribbon Project.
It wasn’t until the 1st of November that the entire campaign kit had been prepared in addition
to the pre-campaign newsletter. This kit has been sent to the CP and VIP group already. There
were a total of 16 countries that requested the campaign kit. On the 1st of December, World AIDS Day took
place. Up to this point, we have received a total of 10 activity reports from our IPSF members. The post-cam-
paign newsletter has been prepared since January and is already published. For the rest of the year, due to
personal issues, I will be restarting my work on the database in April. Additionally, it is worth mentioning that
the preparations for the IPSF Congress have already been started. Finally, I would like to thank everyone
who organized an HIV/AIDS campaign this year, and a special thanks goes to Sharon, who has been a great
support in organizing the campaign kit. However, my subcommittee, especially Lina, shall not be forgotten.
Without you, I would not have been able to get eve-
rything done in time! Johanna Walz -11
HIV/AIDS Awareness Campaign Coordinator 2010
hivaids@ipsf.org
As the TB coordinator, I have been preparing the Pre TB newsletters and campaign kit, which are to be used
for campaigning and awareness purposes. I formed a TB subcommittee to support the cause. The subcom-
mittee has worked with me to prepare the TB newsletters, drafts, official invitations, campaigning strategies
and the TB video, which is a work in progress that will be used for general
public awareness after approval by the Public Health Committee for World
TB Day on March 24th, 2011. In the upcoming 6 months of my 1-year term
as TB coordinator, post-campaign work has to be done, documents and
reports need to be collected, compiled, prepared and submitted on time.
Also, the maintenance of the database and a systematic hand over of do-
cuments will be done for the future TB coordinator
so that our successors can have the advantage of Jasmit Singh
ator 2010-11
our work too. Tuberculosis Awareness Campaign Coordin
tb@ipsf.org
 Public Health
The Healthy Living and Diabetes Awareness Campaign was launched on No-
vember 14th, 2010 and associations from all over the world showed creativity
and interest in BRINGING DIABETES TO LIGHT. Different audiences were
reached and the goal of spreading awareness around the world through
pharmacy students was achieved.
Different ideas were developed by the marvelous teams working on the cam-
paign, they include the following:
Awareness sessions were held- Information tents were set-up
Blood sugar levels were measured- BMRs were calculated
Human blue rings were photographed
Public and pharmacy student awareness was increased through the use of fliers, posters, banners
and booklets.
Each and every member of all the teams around the world gave their time and effort to deliver the
message. Now, you may ask, what’s next?
We are excited to announce the publication of our post World Diabetes Day (WDD) campaign news-
letter, coming soon! Watch out for this upcoming publication and learn more about what happened
for WDD 2010. In addition, since most of the members involved in the awareness campaign will be
gathering for the IPSF Congress 2011, we are excited about our upcoming congress workshop and
what we can do together to support diabetes patients.
Please feel free to email diabetes@ipsf.org should you have any suggestions
for the upcoming congress workshop.
Fedaa Moussa ness Coordinator
Healthy Living and Diabetes Awarediabetes@ipsf.org
2010-11
My goals and plans:
1. Make a Tobacco Alert Team (IPSF): I have 6 friends on my Tobacco Alert Team:…
2. Introduce the Tobacco Alert Campaign: …
3. Start a pre- and post- event media campaign: Not yet, but we are preparing for it now.
4. Initiate and maintain a database: In progress
Plans for the rest of the year:
1. Increase the communication with the tobacco team.
2. Prepare and publish the campaign kit, as well as the pre-media campaign.
3. Increase communication with the Chairperson of Public Health to prepare for the upcoming campaign.
4. Ask the subcommittee to make their own team to do their job, it will be helpful for them and future tobacco
campaign teams.
5. Find as much information as I can about World No Tobacco Day, from WHO, other websites, etc.
6. Prepare the campaign for Thailand Congress (after I get confirmation).
Plans for upcoming projects:
1. Campaign kit (done in February 2011)
2. Pre-campaign newsletter (3 April 2011)
asih -11
Dwi Ruth KurrtniCampaign Coordinator 2010
le
Tobacco A sf.org
tobacco@ip
 Stop TB Essay
Pharmacists’ Role in the Management of Tuberculosis

As health care practitioners, there is a great need to heed the words of Dr. Giuliano Gargioni, “We
have a great responsibility to people with tuberculosis all over the world. Every step we take should
be a step towards ending all deaths from tuberculosis.” Indeed, tuberculosis (TB) is a worldwide
problem. It ranks as the eighth leading cause of death in low- and middle-income countries; among
adults aged 15–59, it ranks as the third cause of death. Pharmacists have a key role in addressing
TB and its elimination. Specifically, pharmacists are crucial in the prevention, early detection, and
treatment of tuberculosis worldwide. They are also educators and advocators for their patients in the
overall management of TB.

Prevention is ideal in dealing with any disease due to the decreased long-term costs to the healthcare
system and improved patient outcomes. When it comes to tuberculosis, pharmacists can stress the
importance of simple, non-pharmacological measures to decrease transmission such as coughing
or sneezing into the elbow or sleeve rather than into the air or the hand during their everyday
interactions with patients. With regards to pharmacological therapy, pharmacists work with patients
and other health care practitioners to instigate Isoniazid Preventive Therapy (IPT). IPT can decrease
the risk of TB by 33% overall and by 64% when targeted to people living with HIV who have had a
positive tuberculin skin test. Since pharmacists are often the first point of contact for people with
symptoms of TB, they can monitor adherence in patients on IPT and assess their signs and
symptoms on a regular basis to see if they correspond with active tuberculosis. In this aspect, they
are integral in the early detection of TB.

Drug therapy counselling to all patients in the provision of patient-centred care is within the scope of
all pharmacists’ practice, including patients receiving anti-TB medications. If a patient has contracted
tuberculosis, pharmacists can provide detailed care plans explaining drug therapy, and monitoring
for each individual patient.

Pharmacists should be knowledgeable about tuberculosis and its treatment and be able to advise
accordingly. Furthermore, pharmacists have the niche in being able to answer drug interaction and
adverse reaction questions especially with anti-retroviral therapy medications if patients have HIV
as a comorbidity. Educational points should always include ways to minimize transmission as an
estimated 30–40% of people with close exposure to tuberculosis will become infected, and someone
with untreated tuberculosis is predicted to infect 10–15 people per year. The general population
should be encouraged to decrease contact with people infected by TB and patients who have
tuberculosis should limit their exposure to other immunocompromised patients.
 Stop TB Essay
Besides prevention and educating patients on treatment options, another vital part of managing
tuberculosis and its resistance is ensuring adherence to regimens through monitoring. Pharmacists
can do so via administering directly observed treatment (DOT) short-course therapy for patients living
in their community. They can also assess adherence at least once a month through patient interviews
and pill counts in areas where urine analysis en masse cannot be done. If non-adherence is noted,
pharmacists can build a rapport with the patients, find the barriers to adherence and address them
accordingly. For instance, patients should be advised of the potential adverse effects commonly
associated with the anti-TB medications in their regimen. If the patient does encounter any of these
side effects to a disruptive degree, they should be advised to report them but not stop the medications
abruptly as some of the adverse effects are transitory. Through ongoing discussions with patients,
pharmacists can re-iterate and educate patients on the importance of meeting drug therapy
guidelines regarding the dosing, and duration of therapy for each individual patient.

Related to patient education is the promotion of public awareness and advocacy for increased access
to treatments of tuberculosis. The former is critical in reducing the stigma of diagnosis and
encouraging early care-seeking behaviour by patients. This will lead to better patient outcomes on
a global scale. The latter is especially critical in areas that are hardest hit by this unique disease;
Africa and Asia. In these parts of the world, barriers to effective and appropriate care of patients with
TB include a lack of facilities for diagnosis, lack of skilled health care providers, and limited or no
drug therapy access. Pharmacists must advocate for timely and appropriate access to anti-TB
medications irrespective of their location of practice and on behalf of their patients and community
as a part of the overall management of tuberculosis.

In summary, pharmacists are key players in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis through
promoting and monitoring adherence, and educating patients and the general public about disease
control and prevention. During drug therapy, they must work with the patient and other health care
providers to monitor for effectiveness, adverse effects, and drug interactions based on each individual
patient. On a day to day basis, pharmacists must advocate for their patients to ensure rational use
of medications by those who need it, in a timely manner.

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 Let’s talk about SEP!
From March 13th-18th, the Student Exchange Committee Meeting was held in Den Haag, the
Netherlands. The FIP office played host to the Chairperson of Student Exchange, Melissa Teo
(Australia), Bálint Toth (Hungary), Slaviša Stojkovič (Serbia), Kerstin Heyder (Germany), Milanka
Marunic (Serbia), Ilse Bollen (The Netherlands) and Elena Fasniuc (Romania).

On our agenda was a discussion about the

importance of regional SEOs in SEP. We had a
thorough discussion and believe that utilizing members
of SEC to assist in proving SEP in each region may be
useful. However, this matter will be further discussed
with SEOs and the Regional Working Groups before
presentation to the General Assembly in Thailand.
Another topic in the agenda was the SEP database,
and the issues that have been identified so far are going
to be clarified. Starting next year, we are introducing
and enforcing Quality of SEP by including it in the IPSF
official documents, whereby students must complete a
minimum number of working hours during their
exchange. Also, because our aim this year is to have
SEC Members that attended the Meeting
more than 800 exchanges, we will find a way to “reward”
you for growth in your association.

This week we also talked about the SEP grant recipients. Their names have been confirmed.
We h0pe they have a great exchange wherever they go. Regarding the Application Form Reallocation
Project, SEOs already received the results.

A new collaboration will soon be established

between the European Law Students Association
(ELSA) and IPSF. This project will prove to be a new
cornerstone for IPSF. More information will be available
soon.

We also talked about the PJT (Pharmaceutical

Japan Tour) held this year in February in Tokyo, Japan.
The other SEC members were really happy with the
participants’ impressions and will suggest to the RC to
continue to run this tour every year if possible.
Additionally, new member countries or those who are not
able to run SEP yet are more than welcome to organize
Grandma and Grandpa of SEC gave
such tours. good input on the meeting
 Let’s talk about SEP!
After the conclusion of the meeting, we made plans to visit Sin City-Amsterdam. We explored
the Amsterdam city center and the Red Light District. The weather was really nice and we had the
chance to take a lot of pictures. We also had the opportunity to visit Leiden, the city where Ilse Bollen
is currently studying. We were invited to meet the local pharmacy student association and were
delighted for the introduction. Thank you Ilse! What’s more is that we were the last people to stay in
the IPSF flat. The Execs are already searching for a new one.

Yours in IPSF,
Elena Fasniuc
Viva la pharmacie!!!

IPSF Internal Relations
Dear IPSFers,

The first ever IPSF Contact Persons’ online meeting was held at the end of March. It was a great
opportunity to communicate with all of the members, to share ideas and discuss very important topics
in IPSF. More than 30 COs were divided into three groups due to time zones.
The proposed agenda:
1. CP Introduction
2. Association Updates
3. Communication and activity reports: IPSF webpage, IPSF
Facebook page, IPSF e-groups
4. The 57th IPSF Congress: registration, official delegates,
communication with RC
5. The second executive meeting
CP’s ideas, recommendations and suggestions
6. Any other business
Meeting outcomes were presented during the 2nd executive meeting.
Opinions from our members can really direct our work and improve every
segment of IPSF. Communication via messages on e-groups mostly consist of sharing activity
reports, informing about important events and projects….The Skype meeting showed that live
conversation is very important in IPSF networking.
I am looking forward to the next Skype meeting. I would really like to encourage all CPs to attend it,
and to meet friends worldwide while actively participating in IPSF work.

Your sincerely, dovic

Vladimir Obra elations
F C h a ir p e rs o n of Internal R
IPS
 IPSF Tribute to Jos van der Zandt
Just before Christmas, on 18 December 2010, the IPSF community was shocked and saddened to hear
about the sudden death of IPSF Honorary Life Member Jos van der Zandt. Jos suffered a heart attack
while out jogging – he was only 51 years old.

Jos van der Zandt means a great deal to many people around the world. He became involved with IPSF
during his pharmacy student years in Utrecht, The Netherlands. He dedicated a great deal of his time to
the organisation and served as Treasurer of IPSF in the mid-1980s. It was in this period that I got to know
Jos myself and we served on the IPSF Executive together.

Jos was a very capable Treasurer. He took his responsibilities seriously, worked hard and was determined
to apply high standards to his work. There were no emails in those days but the Dutch Post was kept busy
delivering may bags of international correspondence to Jos’ apartment in the Kloksteeg in Utrecht.

Jos had firm principles and wasn’t afraid to speak up. In fact, he took on the position of IPSF Treasurer because he believed that
the presentation of accounts needed to be improved. In the 1980s, with the computer age still in its infancy, Jos embraced the new
technology and applied it to the benefit of the IPSF organisation. True to his word, he sorted out the accounts and developed a
system that future Treasurers would thank him for in the years ahead.

Jos travelled a great deal in this period in his life. Visiting USA, Panama, Portugal, Israel, UK, France and Sweden - he participated
in conferences and international meetings and made many friends. He was a good travel companion – always well prepared,
organised and very knowledgeable about his destination.
During the IPSF meeting in Israel in 1987 I remember visiting Masada - the hilltop fortress in the Judean desert. It was extremely
hot and we all decided to take the usual visitor route to the top via the cable car. However this was not to be the way for Jos who
had made up his mind to take the steep winding path up to the summit on foot. He made it - and I think this sums up Jos’
determination to succeed at the goals he set himself.

It goes without saying that IPSF was also a lot of fun in those days. Jos
joined in the many IPSF parties with enthusiasm. We remember him
shaving off his beard at one point and we seem to have gathered quite a
few photographs of Jos enjoying a beer or two.

It was truly an amazing time, and although our University days are long
behind us, the friends we made then are still special today. We keep in
touch and hold an annual reunion. Jos joined the early reunions in Dublin
and Brussels in the 1990s. His chosen career path took him away from
pharmacy, and he went on to have a successful career in various financial
positions with DHL in The Netherlands and Belgium. The bond with IPSF
was still there and it was very special that Jos and his wife J-Lee came to
the reunion which was held last May in Maastricht. Many people who had
not seen Jos for a number of years were delighted to meet up again and
enjoy some good times just like before.
Exec meeting USA , Jim (USA), Ilan,
Luz (with mascot), James, Vivien, Jos
Jos will be sadly missed by his IPSF friends. We have all been looking at photographs of happy days together and are deeply
shocked at the sudden loss of a dear friend. We are grateful for having shared these times with Jos and remember him as: steadfast,
trustworthy, impeccably mannered and a perfect gentleman.

I am reminded of the words of the writer CS Lewis when he reflected on the life we have lived. He said “The pain now is part of the
happiness then. That’s the deal.”

On behalf of IPSF friends I would like to extend my deepest sympathy to Jos’ wife J-Lee and to his family.

Vivien Moffat
Honorary Life Member IPSF
Past President 1987-1988