2016; Volume 17, No 4, April

Announcements

IAHPC Traveling Scholarships to the 5th International Palliative Care Conference of the African Palliative Care Association in Kampala, Uganda, 16-19 August 2016

We are pleased to announce that the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC) will provide fifteen (15) scholarships to support the travel of palliative care workers to attend the APCA Conference, co-hosted by the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA).

The applicants must be:

  1. Living in Lower-, Lower-Middle and Upper-Middle income categories as per the World Bank income classification data. See here. Preference will be given to individuals living and working in African countries.
  2. Active members of IAHPC.
  3. Working actively in palliative care.

Preference will be given to individuals who have not received an IAHPC grant in the past three years, are at least 50% dedicated to palliative care in their current work, graduated less than 10 years ago from their specialty or medical school, and with accepted poster or oral presentations in the Congress.

APCA will give discounted registration fees to individuals from African countries and an early bird fee for individuals applying before April 30, 2016. Additional information about the congress is available on the congress website.

Applications from physicians, nurses, psychologists and other disciplines are welcome. If you wish to apply and are not an IAHPC member, you may join by clicking here.

More detailed information about the application process and the online form are available at the IAHPC website here.

Applicants who submitted abstracts and whose posters are accepted, also need to send to IAHPC the confirmation of the acceptance after they receive it from APCA.

Deadline to apply is April 15, 2016. Results will be announced by early May.

If you need information on how to apply or how to become a member, please email Ms. Genevieve Napier, Manager IAHPC Programs and Projects.

Sincerely,
IAHPC Team

Human Rights Watch launches new blog on drugs policy and human rights – and needs your support with social media!

Diederik Lohman, Associate Health Director at Human Rights Watch, introduces a new blog and explains how you can get involved.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) recently launched a blog on drugs policy and human rights. We will run a series of dispatches highlighting the broad range of human rights abuses committed in the context of the war on drugs. You can read the HRW blog here.

I realize that many of the topics covered in this series are not within your normal mandate but I want to ask for your help in pushing it out on social media whenever you feel comfortable doing so. We will have several pieces on access to opioids.

The first two pieces are up now: A piece framing the series and one on the use of the death penalty for drug offenses in Iran. We will put out 15-20 pieces over the next five weeks.

How you can help

We want to push this series out on social media so I’d be grateful for your help on Twitter and Facebook. We will use two hashtags: #ungass2016 and #stoptheharm.

Here are tweets for the first two postings:

You’re welcome to copy and use the images included in this article.

Thanks for your help!

Final programme for EAPC World Research Congress now online

The final scientific programme for the 9th World Research Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care is now on the congress website. Even if you can’t attend the congress you’ll be able to follow all the activity with the official congress hashtag: #eapc2016irl

To contribute to the Announcements page

Each month, we publish a limited selection of items that we feel will be of interest to our global readership. Content is welcomed but please observe the criteria for inclusion:

Please also consider promoting your education and training events in the IAHPC Global Directory of Education in Palliative Care. It’s quick and easy – just submit your content online.

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