Update Summer 2000

Nordic Co-oporation Strengthens

The Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have always had co-operation in many ways. Also the patient organisations for primary immunodeficiencies in the Nordic countries have had close contacts with each other. The most significant form of co-operation has been the co-Nordic meetings which have been organised every three years during the last decade.

Now the Nordic co-operation has again taken one step further. In May 20-21 in Gothenburg, Sweden, the organisations had a meeting and it was decided there that the co-Nordic meetings shall in future be organised by an unofficial association called NMPI. The charter of the association was approved and also the board members were elected. Every Nordic country has one representative in the board.

The aim of the association is to generally promote the co-operative activities and especially to take care of the fund raising and arrangements of the co-Nordic meetings. The board of the association will meet regularly at least once a year.

The next co-Nordic meeting is planned to be organised in Finland in 2001.

Tatu Kulmala