Kuwait Pharmaceutical Association (KUPFA) has signed the Copenhagen Declaration on the global threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which recommends international cooperation and financial support to combat AMR.
The declaration outlines clear priorities to address antimicrobial resistance, including global partnership building, promoting vaccination and rational antimicrobial use, protecting medicine supply chains, and advancing evidence on stewardship and outcomes.
KUPFA joins global health leaders at FIP 2025
“The signing took place on the sidelines of the 83rd International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, which came to a close in Copenhagen,” KUPFA Board member Dr. Bader Al-Khereinj said in a statement to KUNA.
The FIP World Congress 2025, themed ‘Pharmacy Forward: Performance, Collaboration, and Health Transformation,’ aimed to explore the evolving role of the pharmacy profession in the context of modern healthcare challenges.
“It focused on the role of the pharmaceutical profession in addressing the global threat posed by the AMR to human, animal, and plant health,” Dr. Al-Khereinj pointed out.
“The World Congress voted on professional policies and elected Dr. Nadia Al-Mazrou’ie, of the UAE, as vice president of the FIP Supreme Council, with significant support from Arab and Gulf associations,” he added.
The newly-endorsed policies include, inter alia, utilizing AI in the practice of pharmacy and maximizing benefit from the role of pharmacy in the combat of non-communicable diseases and promotion of public health.
“KUPFA delegation to the World Congress, made up of the Association’s treasurer Wala Marafi and leading pharmacists, visited several social pharmacies – a network of ‘pharmacy societies’ or research groups in Copenhagen, with a view to learning about the Danish pharmacy practice,” Dr. Al-Khereinj concluded.
