2017; Volume 18, No 9, September
IAHPC Membership Matters
Our members are a really important part of our ‘global hospice family’. Please take full advantage of the many great benefits that membership offers by visiting the Members' section of our website. And to those who are not yet members, do please consider joining us! Click here to join.
October is IAHPC Members' Recognition Month – win an IAHPC Traveling Scholarship or Fellowship!
IAHPC benefits every day from the hard work of our members who are devoted to the advancement of hospice and palliative care worldwide. Members exemplify a continuing commitment to patient care, improved education and favorable policies, consistent with our mission.
October is our Members’ Recognition Month when we highlight the vital function that our members play in the advancement of our mission and formally acknowledge their support.
IAHPC will be giving a prize in two categories: Recognizing Loyalty and Increasing Membership. Click here for full details of the award and eligibility criteria.
Remember to renew your membership, if you haven’t already, and be eligible to participate.
You can read about the winners of the 2016 IAHPC Membership Recognition Awards here. And below we are delighted to feature our current IAHPC Institutional Member of the Month . . .
ORJEDEC receives IAHPC Institutional Member of the Month award . . .
A hospice and palliative care organization in Togo, West Africa, has won the IAHPC Institutional Member of the Month award. Pasteur Koffi Anoumou Tengue describes the work of ORJEDEC.
Pictured is a home visit to a patient with throat cancer.
Organisation Jeunesse pour le Développement Communautaire (ORJEDEC) – in English, Youth Organization for Community Development – was created on 17 February 1997. Our original aim was to promote primary health care but since 2011 ORJEDEC has become a hospice and palliative care organization. We have three palliative care trainers, a trained pharmacist and also train community volunteers in palliative care. We work in hospitals and in patients’ homes.
ORJEDEC now has seven small health centers to welcome and accommodate patients throughout the country. We have supported more than 104 patients – children, women and men – of whom 30 are currently being cared for. They suffer from various serious diseases such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, diabetes and sickle cell disease.
ORJEDEC is a member of the Federation of Non-Governmental Organizations in Togo (FONGTO) and the coalition, ’Publish What You Pay’. Our partners include the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, the African Palliative Care Association, Hospice Africa Uganda, Hospice Africa France, as well as the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care. ORJEDEC also works with sister organizations in the fight against non-communicable diseases and other serious diseases.
New and Renewing Members' List
Read the list of individuals who joined/renewed their membership with IAHPC during the past month.
Membership renewals
| Name | Country |
|---|---|
| Lorea Chilton | Canada |
| Maria Lucia Samudio Brigard | Colombia |
| Diane A. Dykeman-Sabado | Dominican Republic |
| Harmala Gupta | India |
| M.R. Rajagopal | India |
| Liliandahirmawati Anggraini | Indonesia |
| Carla Ida Ripamonti | Italy |
| Rita Kabasinskiene | Lithuania |
| Lucy Kishindo Finch | Malawi |
| Sabrina Breton Cervera | Mexico |
| Alfaki Adam Suliman | Sudan |
| Wai Ching Lam | Thailand |
| John Mastrojohn | USA |
| Deanne Sayles | USA |
| Finly Zachariah | USA |
| Sternlate Tshililiwa | USA |
| Elizabeth Teague | USA |
| Huyen Bui | Vietnam |
New members
| Name | Country |
|---|---|
| Anjaeyulu Konda | India |
| Samar Parker | India |
| Manisha Singh | India |
| Comitato per l'etica di fine vita (CEF) | Italy |
| Kaimenyi Jane | Kenya |
| Tikondwe Katumbi | Malawi |
| Sydney Mikondiwa | Malawi |
| Asidaya Chitakunye | Malawi |
| Evelyn Maseko | Malawi |
| Isaac Chikonde | Malawi |
| Jenny Yajaira Capellan Mejia de Duran | Mexico |
| Oyebukola Oyinloye | Nigeria |
| Dorothy Adong Olet | Uganda |
| Kawubiri Wilberforce | Uganda |
| Josephine Nabitaka | Uganda |
| Barbara Duncan | UK |
| Nina Diamond | USA |
| Adeboye Ogunseitan | USA |