Dear Readers:
Welcome back to a new issue of our IAHPC Newsletter. This month we have some exciting news to share with you. First, we would like to invite you to read the wonderful speech “The Essence
of Palliative Care” given by our President Emeritus, Dr Derek Doyle to the National Council for Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Services of The Royal Society of Medicine in UK. Many
thanks to the National Council for supplying the PDF format of the text and to Derek Doyle for the content of his speech. The speech is available in http://www.hospicecare.com/Bio/Doyle%20revise.pdf
Second, we are glad to announce that our IAHPC
Fact Sheets are now available in Portuguese, thanks to the effort and commitment from our friends of AMARA Project in Portugal. We are especially very grateful with Miguel Borges and the rest
of the team for their commitment in making this happen. The Fact Sheets are a wonderful resource and they are currently being updated by a Board committee. We hope that in the near future, they
will be available in other languages as well. The example set by the group from AMARA will hopefully start a trend with other colleagues and friends of IAHPC in the World. The Fact Sheets are available
for viewing in http://www.hospicecare.com/FactSheets/factsheets.htm
Third, we are excited to announce that the IAHPC Publication “Palliative Care in the Developing World: Principles
and Practice” edited by Eduardo Bruera, Liliana De Lima, Roberto Wenk and William Farr, is now ready for sale and distribution. As many of you already know, this publication describes
conditions and diseases common in the developing world, such as rabies, malaria, TB, AIDS, Cancer and others. In addition, the first part of the book addresses socio economic aspects of care in
the developing world, as well as spiritual and ethical problems. The book is composed of 21 chapters written by leading authors from around the world. It is for sale through the IAHPC
Website at a cost of $35.00 for developed countries and $21.00 for developing countries, plus $4.00 for shipping and handling. We hope you will buy a copy and use this resource!
To learn more & buy a copy click here
From September 19th to the 23rd, we will be in Montreal, at the 15th International Congress on Care of the Terminally
Ill. The meeting in Montreal is a very important event for IAHPC. We not only celebrate a Board meeting, but we also hold our General Members Meeting, as well as a Workshop entitled “Palliative
Care in Developing Countries: Challenges and Resources”. This year we will have Drs. Daniela Mosoiu from Romania and Ednin Hamzah from Malaysia as the IAHPC Traveling Scholars to this meeting.
Both will give a presentation during our workshop about their programs and the challenges they face in the provision of palliative care in their countries. If you plan to be in Montreal, please
remember to attend this interesting workshop and stop by our booth # 201 to say hello. We will both be there as well as Ana Restrepo, our manager of member services and several members of our Board.
Many of our members are interested in spending time teaching in a host program or institution as part of our Traveling
Fellowship Program and have asked how they can help. As part of our service we have renewed a form in our website which contains a listing of those willing to spend time teaching abroad. If you
would like to spend time teaching palliative care in a developing country, we invite you to submit your name and contact information in http://www.hospicecare.com/Directories/people.htm
We are sad to inform the palliative and hospice care community that Dr Elizabeth Kübler-Ross died on August 25th,
2004 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Dr Kübler-Ross was a pioneer in the treatment of dying patients and one of the first to bring the subject into mainstream medicine. We have created a Memorial
as a tribute to Dr Kübler-Ross in our website and invite you to write something or read the entries in our In Memoriam page in http://www.hospicecare.com/memoriam/mem_main.htm
Many thanks to those individuals who recently joined as members of the organization. As many of you know, we are offering
a free copy of the MD Anderson Palliative Care Handbook by Drs Elsayem, Driver and Bruera to all those who join IAHPC and help us promote palliative care around the world. We will start sending
out the copies of the book in a few days, once we finish updating the membership database. If you are not a member of IAHPC yet, we invite you to take advantage of this great opportunity and join
this wonderful organization. Membership enrollment can be done online in http://www.hospicecare.com/join.htm
The International Observatory in the End of Life Care has recently published an interesting interview of Dr. Anne Merriman,
from Hospice Africa, Uganda, by Professor David Clark. We invite you to listen to this interesting interview and of the wonderful work that Dr Merriman continues to do in Africa. The interview
can be read and heard in http://www.eolc-observatory.net/
One last announcement: the Latin American Palliative Care Association (ALCP) has launched its website at www.cuidadospaliativos.org
We invite our colleagues and friends from Latin America to browse this new site, which contains an international directory of programs, news and other useful information.
Until next month,
Eduardo Bruera, MD, Chair person
Liliana De Lima, MHA. Executive Director
