2025 Year in Review

By Mark Land, M.S., RAC-US, AAHP 

This year was dominated by change—political change, retail change, and change at AAHP. The association’s newsletter and special e-blasts continue to brief the homeopathic community—and sometime the AAHP membership exclusively—on breaking news and tips to navigate the changing environment. 

This year, the newsletter delivered 54 articles, providing expert advice from your peers. The newsletter also delivered 5 videos and 3 summaries on research, 3 breaking news e-blasts, event announcements, and spotlights on member companies and association benefits in 2025. Our newsletter open rates are much higher than average for trade associations. The six-month average for opening the newsletter is 45% of our distribution list, and for clicking through to at least one article, 11%. Also dispersing news is AAHP’s Facebook account with 11,000 followers and LinkedIn account. The AAHP team posts roughly 20 times each month. Furthermore, TheAAHP.org website has nearly 19,000 viewers year to date and serves as a valuable resource. Be sure to check out AAHP’s top 5 articles in 2025. 

Over the past six months, AAHP’s newsletter has averaged a 45% open rate across our distribution list, with 11% of recipients clicking through to at least one article. AAHP also shares news and updates through its social media channels, including Facebook, which has nearly 11,000 followers. The AAHP team posts approximately 20 times per month across these platforms. In addition, TheAAHP.org has recorded over 35,000 sessions year to date and serves as a valuable resource. Be sure to check out AAHP’s top 5 articles in 2025. 

Political Change and AAHP Engagement in 2025 

Dissatisfaction with healthcare and related policy seemed to have contributed to the installation of the current presidential administration. AAHP has spent much time throughout 2025 monitoring executive orders, broad restructuring at agencies, and headlines on priorities at the U.S. Health and Human Services Department. AAHP’s newsletter and e-blasts continue to curate and brief the homeopathic community on essential news. See the article this month by our Washington DC-insider Pete Evich on leadership change at FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). 

Changes in priorities at regulatory agencies present both risks and opportunities. While the political environment is more supportive of alternative medicines, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. remains focused in his first year on priorities that affect every American every day such as clean food and water. 

AAHP took the opportunity presented by this more favorable climate to engage with Congress. Throughout July, AAHP met in-person with 25+ targeted health staff at Congressional offices — mostly on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Our goal was to plant seeds and gauge support for substituting GMPs specifically for manufacturing homeopathic drug products when current GMPs are not able to be applied. AAHP citied a precedent for GMPs specifically for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Drugs and explained that different interpretations of unapplicable cGMPs create inconsistency among other problems. Most Capitol Hill staff felt the request was reasonable and could be supported. Other associations support the concept due to technical solutions having been worked out through HPCUS’s multi-year task force with third-party experts including toxicologists and a former FDA staff member. 

Changes at AAHP in 2025 

This was the first year operating under our new name, the Association for Homeopathic Products. Changing the name from pharmacists to products reflects the broader scope of the association’s work more accurately. 

Another change we’re preparing for is the retirement of a key AAHP staff member. In March of 2026, AAHP Secretary and board member Eric Foxman will step down after serving the association for 46 years! An article this month shows how much work the association has done behind the scenes in preparation for filling Mr. Foxman’s “big shoes.” 

AAHP Engagement with the Homeopathic Community in 2025 

In addition to routinely responding to the homeopathic community’s questions on current issues and requests for information, AAHP supported our fellow organizations in the following ways in 2025: 

• Homeopathy Research Institute: AAHP sponsored and attended the 6th International Research Conference in Greece this June. AAHP provided summaries of the research for our newsletter readers. The work of HRI is invaluable and beneficial to our community, and we proudly offer our support. 

• Homeopathic Action Alliance: AAHP continues to meet and exchange ideas with 14 organizations of the homeopathic community at quarterly meetings. 

• Consumer Healthcare Products Association: In April, AAHP presented an overview of homeopathy and its regulations for the new staff of this Washington D.C.-based association representing conventional OTCs and more. AAHP committee members continue to work closely with this Washington-D.C.-based group to represent homeopathy on CHPA’s committees and gain insights for AAHP members. 

• Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia Convention of the United States (HPCUS): AAHP distributes occasional news items from HPCUS, including updates on its white papers — a multi-year effort to resolve and suggest technical solutions specific to manufacturing homeopathic drug products when current Good Manufacturing Practices are not applicable. 

• Americans for Homeopathy Choice: AAHP meets with AfHC monthly to exchange information. In additional AAHP offers support by responding to requests, such as this October providing statistics on the safety of the overall class of homeopathic drugs from AAHP analysis funded for the FDA’s 2015 hearing and another analysis AAHP conducted of the 2012–2019 Annual Reports of the American Association of Poison Control Centers’ National Poison Data System (NPDS). 

• Alliance for Natural Health: AAHP has been closely watching the progression of the lawsuit that ANH for filed against FDA and briefing our newsletter readers, and sometimes via AAHP member-only e-blasts. 

• Introducing Homeopathy: The Film: AAHP has promoted free screenings of this documentary through its social media and newsletter. 

• Academy for Homeopathic Education and HOHM Foundation: Attended fundraisers in June and September. 

• LIGA: Promoted its survey on challenges to homeopaths.