The International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation (IPSF) is the leading international advocacy organisation for pharmacy students, that promotes improved public health, through provision of information, education, networking, and a range of publications and professional activities. This Federation was founded in 1949 by eight pharmacy student associations in London and now it represents approximately 350,000 pharmacy students and recent graduates in 70 countries worldwide.
Over the years IPSF has been developing initiatives that focus mainly on areas of Public Health, Pharmacy Education and Professional Development. Some of these initiatives include public health campaigns, research on issues in pharmacy education and workforce development, the Student Exchange Programme, organising international and regional congresses and symposia, and the publication of the IPSF News Bulletin, Newsletter and the educational supplement Phuture.
This Federation holds Official Relations with the World Health Organization (WHO), Operational Relations with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and Roster Consultative Status with the Economic Social Council of the United Nations (UN ECOSOC). IPSF also works in close collaboration with the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). The IPSF Secretariat is supported and hosted by the FIP in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Pharmaceutical Argentinian Confederation is, since 1935, the 2nd grade pharmaceutical organization, which brings together 20 schools, Circles, Provincial Federations and Associations of Pharmacists, providing care through more than 10,000 pharmacies distributed throughout the paÃs.There are enrolled 16,000 professionals working in the hospital, industry, teaching and 80% of them in offices of private pharmacies, with the clear slogan that today more than ever the pharmacy must be inserted into a project of national health that has its foundations in the PC (Primary Care) supported on the pillars of prevention and health promotion. The COFA endorses an expression of O.M.S. "There is no efficient medicine without effective drug management " reaffirming the need for professionalization through constant updating.
