The Erice Declaration

The following declaration was drawn up at the International Conference on Developing Effective Communications in Pharmacovigilance, Erice, Sicily, Italy, 24–27 September 1997.[1]The Conference was organised by the Uppsala Monitoring Centre; the Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Institute of Pharmacology of Verona University; the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, International School of Pharmacology; the World Health Organisation and supported by EQUUS Communications, London. Further information from: Prof. I. Ralph Edwards, Tel.: + 46 18 65 60 60 of Bruce Hugman, EQUUS, Tel.: + 46 171 274 8724. It was attended by health professionals, researchers, academics, media writers, representatives of the pharmaceutical industry, drug regulators, patients, lawyers, consumers and international health organisations.