Every two years, EPN holds its Annual General Meeting (AGM). The "Forum" as the AGM is referred to as an opportunity for the EPN members to meet physically to discuss and make critical decisions in relation to the activities of the Network.

EPN Forum 2010, Nairobi

The theme for this year's EPN Forum was "Health System Strengthening: Focus on Pharmaceutical Service Delivery". The Forum was held from March 18^th to 19^th in Nairobi, Kenya.

The overall objective of the meeting was to discuss and deliberate on strategies for building sustainable pharmaceutical systems and for the delivery of quality pharmaceutical services within the church sector. The forum addressed the roles of different sector players in health systems strengthening, issues of financing, service delivery, pharmaceutical work force and governance. It was hoped that the forum would contribute to the growing body of knowledge on strengthening of Church Health Systems in Africa in general but with a particular emphasis on issues that impact on access to medicines and provision of pharmaceutical services.
Participants were heads of institutions and senior managers from the EPN member institutions.  Members from up to 20 countries from across Francophone and Anglophone Africa attended.  In addition, agencies involved in funding health and pharmaceutical service delivery, representatives from relevant government ministries, international and regional bodies involved in health and pharmaceutical service delivery were present at the forum. Download the report here:

 Forum Report 2010 (3.37 MB)

Click here to download the presentations given during the forum or to view some pictures of the event.

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EPN Forum 2008, Yaoundé

The 2008 EPN Forum was held from 15^th to 20^th June in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The forum was attended by EPN members from 22 countries. The theme of the forum was Pharmaceutical Standards. Read more about the forum in the below report:

 Forum Report 2008 (1.58 MB)

EPN Forum 2006, Tuebingen 

In 2006, the Forum was held from 8^th to 13^th May in Tuebingen, Germany. It coincided with 25 years of the work of EPN and 100 years of Difaem. Read more about the forum in the below report:

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 EPN Statement on PEPFARs_SCMS (172.17 kB) 

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