If you have a recently published article that you wish to share with your IAHPC colleagues, please contact Genevieve Napier.
William Rosa, Felicia Knaul, Katherine Pettus, Eduardo Bruera, and MR Rajagopal authored a letter to the editor published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology online on December 8. The US Cancer Pain Crisis and the Global Pain Divide: Can two wrongs make it right? notes that “...excess supply has now ironically generated restrictions in access within the United States and, with it, devastating pain-related outcomes for many groups of patients, including those with cancer.”
Gayatri Palat is lead author of The Introduction and Experiences of Methadone for Treatment of Cancer Pain at a Low-Resource Governmental Cancer Center in India, published in the November 2021 issue of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care. The article reports on a study that investigated the experience of health care professionals in a low-resource hospital who were responsible for introducing methadone as a treatment for complex cancer pain, concluding that methadone is both safe and feasible in stressful and low-resource settings.
An open access article by Luisa Arenas and eight other coauthors, Prevalence and Characteristics of Patients with Heart Failure Needing Palliative Care, was published in BMC Palliative Care in December. Despite the fact that “few hospitals and heart failure clinics offer concurrent palliative care together with life-prolonging therapies,” the results showed that among the 178 patients, 78 (44%) had palliative care needs, particularly those classified as NYHA III/IV and those over 70.
A research article by Luc Deliens, Vilma A. Tripodoro, Diane A. Dykeman-Sabado, Nineth Carolina Baltodano Algaba, and Tania Pastrana was published on December 15 by the Pan American Journal of Public Health. Feasibility of Using Death Certificates for Studying Place of Death in Latin America is a comparative study that looked at data on reported deaths in 19 countries. The conclusion was that the data sets were rated medium to high in 10 of those countries, making “it feasible to conduct an international comparative study.”
Tania Pastrana was one of three coauthors of Challenges in the Provision of Pediatric Palliative Care in Mexico: A cross-sectional Web-based survey, published in the Journal of Palliative Care in December 2021. The study identified barriers to the provision of care in low-and middle-income countries, the greatest of which were: few support teams or networks; lack of training centers and continuing education; and lack of legal, labor, and economic protections for parents who need to stop working to be with their children.
Tara Devi Laabar is lead author of Support Needs for Bhutanese Family Members Taking Care of Loved Ones Diagnosed with Advanced Illness, an article published in the Journal of Palliative Care in December 2021.This study found a high level of support needs among Bhutanese family members caring for their loved ones diagnosed with advanced cancer as well as non-malignant conditions.
The IAHPC leadership would like to thank the many members who participated in stories and columns in this month’s newsletter.
Links to IAHPC programs mentioned above: Global Consensus-Based Palliative Care Definition and COVID-19 Briefing Notes.
A list of individuals who joined, or renewed their membership with, IAHPC during the past month.
| Name | Country |
|---|---|
| Centro de Investigacion e Implementacion en Cuidados Paliativos (CII-CP) | Argentina |
| Maria De Los Angeles Minatel | Argentina |
| Maria Susana Ciruzzi | Argentina |
| Alyson Gundry | Australia |
| Patsy Yates | Australia |
| Tara Devi Laabar | Australia |
| Margo Munroe | Bahamas |
| Fazle Noor Biswas | Bangladesh |
| Lailatul Ferdous | Bangladesh |
| Juliano Ferreira Arcuri | Brazil |
| Kenfack Jiofack Fulbert | Cameroon |
| Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) | Canada |
| Alberto Perez-Medina | Colombia |
| Gloria Mabel Carrillo | Colombia |
| Maria Adelaida Cordoba-Nunez | Colombia |
| Victoria Diehl | Costa Rica |
| Samy Alsirafy | Egypt |
| Edwina Addo Opare-Lokko | Ghana |
| Winifred Nana Yaa Otoo | Ghana |
| Hellenic Society of Pain Management and Palliative Care | Greece |
| Fundacion Ammar Ayudando | Guatemala |
| Maria Elena Alcantara Godoy | Guatemala |
| CanSupport | India |
| Garima Agarwal | India |
| Kush Gupta | India |
| Latha Sneha | India |
| Manisha Singh | India |
| Piyush Gupta | India |
| Priti Sanghavi | India |
| Sushma Bhatnagar | India |
| Wasimul Hoda | India |
| Erna Rochmawati | Indonesia |
| Maria Astheria Witjaksono | Indonesia |
| Venita Eng | Indonesia |
| Carla Ida Ripamonti | Italy |
| Felix Mokandu Angasa | Kenya |
| Kenya Hospices And Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA) | Kenya |
| Stella Mwari Rithara | Kenya |
| Tonny Abdul MWABURY | Lesotho |
| Lucy Kishindo Finch | Malawi |
| Jose Isaac Gonzalez Huerta | Mexico |
| Emilia da Felicidade Venturas Pinto Miquidade | Mozambique |
| Nineth C. Baltodano Algaba | Nicaragua |
| Eunice Boluwatife Olusoji | Nigeria |
| Folaju Olusegun Oyebola | Nigeria |
| Dagny Faksv Haugen | Norway |
| Muhammad Atif Waqar | Pakistan |
| Jesus Eugenio De Jesus | Philippines |
| Joan Rafols | Philippines |
| Mari Joanne Joson | Philippines |
| Maria Fidelis Manalo | Philippines |
| Xiohara Gentica | Philippines |
| Abdulaziz Aljohani | Saudi Arabia |
| Christine February | South Africa |
| Julia Ambler | South Africa |
| Margie Venter | South Africa |
| B. Sunil S. De Silva | Sri Lanka |
| MKDL Meegoda | Sri Lanka |
| Mary Baltasary Haule | Tanzania |
| Theodora Ndunguru | Tanzania |
| Brenda Ward | United Kingdom |
| Bethany-Rose Daubman | United States |
| Cristina Montanez | United States |
| Ebtesam Ahmed | United States |
| Galina Khemlina | United States |
| Jacek Soroka | United States |
| Judith Paice | United States |
| Letha Mills | United States |
| Miguel E Rodriguez | United States |
| Nauzley Abedini | United States |
| Silk Road Development, Inc. - The Hamdardi Project in Afghanistan | United States |
| Gabriela Piriz Alvarez | Uruguay |
| Wisdom Muleya Munkombwe | Zambia |
| Agnes Chipo Tererai | Zimbabwe |
| Name | Country |
|---|---|
| Natnael Alemayehu Abebe | Ethiopia |
| Heiko Schonefeld | Germany |
| Arjun D | India |
| Dr Kahkasha | India |
| Geetha Ramamurthy | India |
| Malathi G Nayak | India |
| Radhika R Pai | India |
| Sarada Lingaraju | India |
| Sneha Rooh | India |
| Vanshika Gupta | India |
| Maha Kassem | Lebanon |
| Orquidea Tamayo Mortera | New Zealand |
| Loyda Amor Cajucom | Philippines |
| Martyna TOMCZYKÂ | Switzerland |
| Dorothy Mandwa | Tanzania |
| Hieronimo Rweyemamu | Tanzania |
| Linda Press | United States |
| Spenser Chen | United States |
| Stanley Wulf | United States |
See the full list of IAHPC members
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