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WFH 2025 Twins of the Year

WFH 2025 Twins of the Year announced

The World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) is pleased to announce the 2025 Twins of the Year! The 2025 Hemophilia Organization Twinning (HOT) Program Twins of the Year are the Haemophilia Association of Mauritius and the Hemophilia Federation (India). The 2025 Hemophilia Treatment Centre Twinning (HTC) Program Twins of the Year are the Instituto Hematológico Pediátrico Dra Victória do Espírito Santo, Luanda, Angola and the IHTC Campinas, Hemocentro UNICAMP, University of Campinas (Brazil).

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The WFH Twinning Program supports short-term collaborative partnerships between medical professionals, patient organizations, and youth leaders from around the world to improve care for people living with bleeding disorders worldwide. The program promotes capacity building and sustainability through knowledge and expertise exchange between partners. Each year, the Twins of the Year award is given to partnerships that have demonstrated a high level of commitment, maintained excellent communications, and worked together as a cohesive team to achieve their set objectives. The 2025 Twins of the Year Awards were announced at the WFH 2026 World Congress in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where the partners received recognition plaques.

2025 HOT Program Twins of the Year

The 2025 Hemophilia Organization Twinning (HOT) Program Twins of the Year award was presented to the Haemophilia Association of Mauritius and Hemophilia Federation (India), marking the first time a youth twinning partnership has received this distinction. The partnership is especially significant because the Hemophilia Federation (India) youth group, now acting as the established partner, was itself once an emerging partner in a WFH youth twinning. A major highlight of this partnership was the visit of the Mauritius youth team to India, where participants took part in training sessions, observational visits, strategic discussions, and community activities. Online sessions on leadership, communication, and project planning further strengthened the collaboration. The initiative also included a youth gathering in Mauritius focused on mental health, succession planning, experience-sharing, and self-infusion training. This twinning demonstrates the extraordinary impact of youth leadership, peer to peer learning, and long-term investment in the next generation of advocates.

The 2025 HOT Program Twins of the Year receiving their award at the WFH 2026 World Congress in Kuala Lumpur this April (the Haemophilia Association of Mauritius and the Hemophilia Federation [India]).
The 2025 HOT Program Twins of the Year receiving their award at the WFH 2026 World Congress in Kuala Lumpur this April (the Haemophilia Association of Mauritius and the Hemophilia Federation [India]).

2025 HTC Program Twins of the Year

The 2025 Hemophilia Treatment Centre (HTC) Twins of the Year Award was presented to the Instituto Hematológico Pediátrico Dra Victória do Espírito Santo in Luanda, Angola, and the IHTC Campinas, Hemocentro UNICAMP, University of Campinas (Brazil). Their partnership highlights how collaboration and strong leadership can rapidly strengthen care systems and professional expertise. In 2025, the twins organized a multidisciplinary inherited bleeding disorders workshop in Angola led by a five-member team from Brazil. The workshop attracted 97 participants, including healthcare professionals from Angola, Mozambique, and Cabo Verde. Participating people with bleeding disorders (PWBDs) received coordinated multidisciplinary evaluations in hematology, laboratory services, nursing, physiotherapy, and dental care. As a direct result of the partnership, 20 PWBDs began prophylaxis treatment, helping to establish a foundation for sustainable, long-term care improvements in Angola. This HTC twinning stands as a model of how strategic twinning can accelerate system-level change while keeping PWBDs at the center of care.

The 2025 HTC Twins of the Year receiving their award at the WFH 2026 World Congress in Kuala Lumpur this April (the Instituto Hematológico Pediátrico Dra Victória do Espírito Santo in Luanda, Angola, and the IHTC Campinas, Hemocentro UNICAMP, University of Campinas [Brazil]).
The 2025 HTC Twins of the Year receiving their award at the WFH 2026 World Congress in Kuala Lumpur this April (the Instituto Hematológico Pediátrico Dra Victória do Espírito Santo in Luanda, Angola, and the IHTC Campinas, Hemocentro UNICAMP, University of Campinas [Brazil]).

On behalf of the WFH, congratulations to the 2025 Twins of the year!

For more information on the WFH Twinning Program, please click here.

The Twinning Program is supported by our Founding Visionary Partner Pfizer and Leadership Partner Sanofi.

We’ve accomplished a lot this year, we need your help to continue strong.

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