We hope that this New Year brings happiness, peace and health to you and your loved ones.
IAHPC Board of Directors
As many of you are aware, we recently completed the election of board members, and are proud to announce the election of the following individuals as new directors:
Sushma Bhatnagar, MD, Professor and Head Unit of Anaesthesiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Professor Rosa Buitrago, Vice Dean, School of Pharmacy, University of Panama, Panama City, Panama.
Ms. Mary Callaway, Director, International Palliative Care Initiative, Open Society Foundations, New York, USA.
The following individuals were re-elected:
Eric Krakauer, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
Mhoira Leng, MD, Head of Palliative Care, Mulago Hospital and Makerere University Kampala, Uganda.
Congratulations again to these five individuals! We look forward to working with all of them. We will feature them in the upcoming newsletters.
The end of 2014 also marked the expiration of IAHPC membership for many of you. Individuals and institutions whose membership expired should have received reminders by 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 click here.
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 are a reflection of how much 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 advocacy, 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 a second phase of Opioid Price Watch, a project to monitor the retail price of opioids on a global scale, an online certification program and many others. We look forward to the implementation of these with your collaboration and support.
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 2015.
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How your gift supports the IAHPC mission
Achieved: $24,941
Goal: $30,000
83%
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.
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.
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.
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:
Documents on Human Rights and Access to Medicines and Care
Research
Your gift enables us to continue doing research that provides guidance and recommendations for action, based on responses from the global palliative care community. Such research includes our recent evaluation of the impact of euthanasia and assisted dying practices on palliative care workers and the use of essential medicines for palliative care. It also supports the costs of publications focused on research relevant to palliative care.
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.
Your membership enables you to participate in IAHPC projects such as the:
Your gift enables us to continue our in-depth reporting and book reviews in Pallinews, as well as media campaigns that raise awareness about the need to increase access to care and support for patients and families.
We are a small organization that allocates over 80% of our budget to mission driven programs and to the maintenance of our free website. We need operational funding to continue the work.
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IAHPC members: When you gift a 2-year membership to a colleague in a low- or middle-income country, we extend your membership by 6 months.
