Announcements
Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance (WPCA)
Information Group Survey
“Dear friends and colleagues:
The Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance (WPCA) is a network of all the regional and international palliative care organizations from around the world.
The Information Group is one of the task groups of the WPCA. The objectives of the group are:
- To support National Associations to provide information to local and regional services
- To contribute to the aims of the Worldwide Palliative Alliance by carrying out information activities
Members of the group include:
Liliana De Lima (Chair) – International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC)
Amanda Bingley – International Observatory in End of Life Care (IOELC)
Amelia Giordano - European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC)
AnneMarie Griffin – Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) (For North America)
Avril Jackson – Hospice Information Service (HIS)
Nick Pahl – Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance (WPCA)
Tony Powell - African Palliative Care Association (APCA)
Rosalie Shaw – Asia Pacific Hospice and Palliative Care Network (APHN)
Roberto Wenk – Latin American Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (ALCP)
In order to be able to develop a plan to meet our objectives, we need to identify the current status of information delivery in your organization or association. This includes formal and informal newsletters, bulletins or other regular information service that you may provide to your target audience and stakeholders.
Please help us by completing this brief questionnaire on or before June 30 th, 2007. If you have already completed this questionnaire on behalf of an organization, please disregard this message. If you represent more than one organization which publishes newsletters and bulletins, you may complete a form for each organization.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Information Group WPCA”
To enter the survey, please click on the following link:
http://www.helpthehospices.org.uk/forms/wpca_bulletin_survey/index.asp
WHO Essential Medicines for Children
Call for applications and Comments
As part of the follow-up to the Executive Board resolution EB.120.R13 the WHO is holding an Expert Consultation on Essential Medicines for Children in Genevafrom 9 to 13 July 2007. The background to this process was outlined in the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, Volume 85, Number 4, April 2007, 245-324.
The first draft of a WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children is now on the WHO website at
http://mednet3.who.int/EML/expcom/CHILDREN/INDEX_children_07.htm.
The site also contains the draft agenda and the policy papers and applications received to date. Comments on the draft list can be submitted before 31 May 2007.
Full applications for inclusion, change or deletion of a medicine in the Model List of Essential Medicines for Children, using the format specified on the meeting website
http://mednet3.who.int/EML/expcom/CHILDREN/EMLc_AppForm.pdf should be sent to the Secretary of the Expert Consultation before 15 May 2007.
The address is:
The Secretary of the Expert Consultation on Essential Medicines for Children Policy, Access and Rational Use Department of Medicines Policy and Standards World Health Organization 20 Avenue Appia CH-1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland. email: [email protected]
Public comments, including letters of support on the applications, may also be submitted to [email protected]. All comments received will be published on the web.
In the application there is a section on Palliative Care. We invite those who are currently working on the field to comment on the applications which will be posted in the WHO Website after May 15, 2007. It is critical to ensure that children have access to palliative care medications.
24th International AIDS Candlelight Memorial
Sunday, May 20 th, 2007
Join communities around the world this Sunday, May 20 th, 2007 for the 24 th Annual International AIDS Candlelight Memorial. The Memorial, a program of the Global Health Council, is among the largest and oldest grassroots mobilization campaigns for AIDS awareness in the world. Occurring every third Sunday in May since 1983, the event is led by volunteer Candlelight Coordinators who plan local candlelight memorials to honor all those affected, as well as to educate and advocate for improving AIDS policy.
To become a Candlelight Coordinator, and receive your free posters and newly-revised coordinator manual, register at www.candlelightmemorial.org. Anyone can be a coordinator, and memorials can take many forms, from a gathering of friends in a village to a march of thousands in city streets.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
”Public Health Service National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, Maryland 20892
The most reliable, up-to-date information about cancer is now available in Spanish! The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is pleased to announce the launch of our new Spanish Web site, http://www.cancer.gov/espanol
NCI, the Federal government’s premiere cancer research institute, is committed to reducing cancer health disparities by making cancer information readily available to underserved populations. The Web site features themes of prevention, detection, treatment, and survivorship.
Highlights of the Web site include:
* Information organized by types of cancer
* Myths and beliefs
* Support and resources in your community
* Dictionary of cancer terms
For information about these topics and more, visit http://www.cancer.gov/espanol. Or call NCI’s Cancer Information Service at 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237). Cancer information specialists answer calls in Spanish or English.”
Journal articles on Palliative Care
“The Journal of Public Health policy recently published a section on Palliative Care in developing countries. It features an article by Ruth Webster, Judith Lacey and Susan Quine from the Cardiovascular Division at George Institute for International Health in Camperdown, Australia, a commentary by Anne Merriman and Jack Jagwe, and a viewpoint by Jan Stjersnward. Some abstracts may be see in the following website:
Journal of Public Health Policy 2007; 28(1).”
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/jphp/2007/00000028/00000001
Cancer Control Opportunities in Low-and Middle-Income Countries
Board on Global Health ( BGH)Report Brief
February 2007- US Institute of Medicine (IOM)
Available online at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11797.html
For more Information:
“Copies of Cancer Control Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries are available from the National Academies Press, 500 Fifth Street, N.W., Lockbox 285, Washington, DC20055; (800) 624-6242 or (202) 334-3313 This study was supported by funds from the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society.”
Two Free Booklets on Palliative Care
“Palliative Care is an important public health issue, which is concerned with the suffering, the dignity, the care needs and the quality of life of people living with a life-limiting illness. The WHO Centre for Urban Health with the support of the Floriani Foundation and in collaboration with the European Association of Palliative Care, the International Palliative Care Initiative of the Open Society Institute, the Kings College London and the European Institute of Oncology published two complementary booklets; The Solid Facts of Palliative Care and Better Palliative Care for Older People.
English and Russian versions can be downloaded, copied, and distributed for advocacy purposes.
English
http://www.euro.who.int/document/E82933.pdf
http://www.euro.who.int/document/E82931.pdf
Russian
http://www.euro.who.int/document/E82933R.pdf
http://www.euro.who.int/document/E82931R.pdf ”
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