IVO forced to work with global cooperation on assistive technology

The World Health Organization WHO works on the so-called "GATE"-Program. GATE stands for Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology. Part of this program is the development and introduction of an index of types of aids and appliances, in order to provide world-wide access to them - thus this program will have a big impact on the world-wide treatment with aids and appliances in the future and this way also on the work of orthopedic shoe technology.

The German Central Association of Orthopedic Shoe Technology (ZVOS) therefore organized an event, together with the IVO, within the framework of the trade fair OST in Cologne. The aim was to especially inform the supply industries about the GATE-program and to hear their point of view on this topic.

A WHO-representative, Mister Chapal Khasnabis, participated in the IVO-Congress in Paris in March, in order to get information about orthopedic shoe technology. Mister Khasnabis also held a lecture on the current state of the GATE-program. In this framework the participants of the IVO-Congress could get information about how the GATE-program can affect orthopedic shoe technology and what the industry can do on a world-wide scale to support people with the need for aids and appliances to get these.