Dear readers:
We hope that this New Year brings happiness, peace and health to you and your loved ones.
As many of you are aware, we recently completed the nomination of candidates for our board of directors for the term 2013-2015. The four new members will be announced next month in our Newsletter. We are very grateful with all of you who actively participated in this nomination process.
The end of 2012 also marked the expiration of IAHPC membership for many of you. Individuals and institutions whose membership is about to expire should have received reminders by e-mail. If your membership expired and you have not renewed, please remember to do so. Membership dues are very important to IAHPC as they help us to continue our mission to help others. To renew your membership, please go to our website at www.hospicecare.com and click on the IAHPC Membership Join/Renew button in the links on the left.
During the month of December we received many donations from individuals who gave funds to IAHPC in memory of a friend or loved one as a gesture of gratitude for the care that they received from hospice and palliative care providers. Many thanks for your encouragement, support, and help. These donations are very important to the organization as they reflect the impact we are really having at the level that matters most - patients and families.
In the past several years many advances and changes have taken place, especially in our ability to communicate with palliative care workers around the globe. These are exciting times that offer new opportunities for collaboration, networking and support. What hasn't changed is our commitment to support palliative care in developing countries and to implement cost effective strategies and programs that maximize our ability to help and accomplish our mission. As in the past, we will continue to help the development of palliative care, education, research and practice around the world.
We have many exciting projects and programs for this year. These include the continuation of Opioid Price Watch, a project to monitor the retail price of opioids on a global scale, the growth of Pallipedia (our online palliative care dictionary), the application for palliative care medicines to the World Health Organization Model List of Essential Medicines, and many others. We look forward to the implementation of these with your collaboration and support.
In addition to the projects we announced in our December 2012 edition, we are also happy to announce that the Atlas for Palliative Care in Latin America was completed during the last week of 2012. IAHPC and other organizations partnered with the Latin American Association for Palliative Care (ALCP for its acronym in Spanish) to develop and complete this project. This edition of the Newsletter includes an announcement by Dr. Tania Pastrana, Principal Investigator in this project.
We appreciate the confidence that all of our donors, members and readers have placed in us and in our work. We will strive to be better each day and look forward to working with you in 2013.
Until next month,
Roberto Wenk, MD
Chair, Board of Directors
Liliana De Lima, MHA
Executive Director
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