What does palliative care look like where you live? Show us for a chance to win IAHPC's 2023 Photo Contest: see details in the News section. This composite is slices of winning photos from the last contest, showing palliative care in Burkina Faso, Lesotho, and Pakistan.

A Few of IAHPC's Many Resources

Up-to-date, expert info: IAHPC's pain course & symptoms course, free for members.

Stay on track with terminology with the help of our IAHPC's free online palliative care dictionary, Pallipedia, & Language Matters.

Browse or search IAHPC's book reviews.

Find your peers on our new Members Map.

Dear Readers A mix from Lukas and Liliana: IAHPC's special issue, a tribute to Lucy Watts, EAPC Scholars, and books for members.
Policy & Advocacy Katherine Pettus reports on high-level meetings (World Health Assembly, UN Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing), an IAHPC webinar and plans for more, opposition to physician-assisted dying via telehealth, update on the WHO pandemic preparedness treaty, and a terrific EOL University podcast.
Special Advocacy Report Easy to do, yet so inspiring: Kristin Forner's experience advocating for palliative care at the United Nations.
IAHPC News
- IAHPC launches its 2023 Photo Contest. Win a cash prize & membership extension!
- New & upcoming member benefits: it's a great time to join the IAHPC.
- New IAHPC appeals & what we hope you'll do with them: share!
- IAHPC Scholars heading to the EAPC World Congress.
- Reader Recommended CUDECA's YouTube channel.
- Great idea! A hospice café.
- Tidbits Palliversations video #3 on rural India; tips on talking to media about palliative care, 2 job postings for Doctors Without Borders, blogs from the frontlines in Khartoum, Sudan.
- What’s New in the IAHPC Calendar.
Featured Story My Cancer Journey, by IAHPC Board Member Ebtesam Ahmed.
Movie Review Live the Life You Please, reviewed by Frank Brennan. Also, a Q&A with retired palliative care physician Dr. David Clark about his 2022 play, Cicely and David (a different David!)
Lessons from the Literature On My Radar AI in palliative care: ethical concerns & research opportunities, compiled by Barry Ashpole.
Membership Matters
- Delicious! Delicioso! Délicieux! Pecan & Rolled Oats Pancakes recipe, by Debra Pledger-Fonte. Share one of your favorite recipes.
- New & Renewing Members’ List
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Education

Your gift funds the operational costs of our online courses taught by globally recognized experts who volunteer their time and provide educational resources relevant to palliative care topics. It also supports scholarships that enable palliative care workers to attend educational events and congresses, and allows us to maintain Pallipedia, the free, live, online dictionary.

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The goal of this pillar is to implement strategies, resources and tools that will improve the competencies of the global workforce for appropriate palliative care delivery. We have two programs under this pillar plus many other resources for our members.

Scholarship Program

Your membership helps us produce, and enables access for those with fewer resources, to the following:

Palliative Care in Neurological Conditions
Comprehensive Basic Pain Assessment and Management
Advanced Pain Assessment and Management
Comprehensive Symptom Assessment and Management
Advocacy for global, regional, and national advocacy for palliative care
Pallipedia: Free, online palliative care dictionary
Special Issue on Assisted Dying Practices by several authors
Some Notes for Physicians Contemplating a Career in Palliative and Person-Centered Care by Eduardo Bruera, MD
Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide: Are they clinically necessary or desirable? by Dr. Roger Woodruff
How to Help our Patients in their Terminal Phase by Wilson Astudillo A. and Carmen Mendinueta A.
Cómo Ayudar a un Enfermo Terminal by Wilson Astudillo A. and Carmen Mendinueta A.
Palliative Care in the Developing World - Principles and Practice by Eduardo Bruera, Liliana De Lima, Roberto Wenk and William Farr

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Your gift enables us to build and strengthen the partnerships that accelerate global, regional, and national advocacy for palliative care. We advocate for its integration into primary health care under universal health coverage and effective access to essential palliative care medicines and packages for people of all ages. Your gift supports our work to prepare delegates and participate in technical consultation meetings of the relevant UN organizations.

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The goal this pillar is the integration of palliative care into primary health care within the spectrum of universal coverage to improve access to adequate care for patients in need. We offer the following to our members:

Online Advocacy Course
Mentoring for advocacy to develop palliative care in your country
A chance to join IAHPC delegations to UN and WHO meetings
National association collaboration with IAHPC advocacy initiatives
A chance to apply for the Leadership Development Program (LEAD)

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IAHPC Advocacy Policy Briefs
Palliative Care Advocacy Why Does It Matter?
Documents on Human Rights and Access to Medicines and Care

Research

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The goal of this pillar is to design and implement projects that lead to the integration of palliative care into health policies, resolutions, and key documents. Our studies help us provide guidance and recommendations, and take action based on the responses from the global palliative care community.

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Global Palliative Care Database
Consensus-based definition of palliative care
Clinical use of tramadol
Opioid Price Watch
IAHPC List of Essential Practices in Palliative Care in English and Spanish
IAHPC Opioid Essential Prescription Package
IAHPC List of Essential Medicines for Palliative Care (in multiple languages)

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