Palliative Care in Latin America: The ALCP congress through the eyes of IAHPC Scholars from Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador & Guatemala. Plus: their posters. In Pallinews: https://bit.ly/4ayYFaS
International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC)
Hospitals and Health Care
Houston, TX 2,062 followers
A global membership organization whose vision is a world free from health related suffering.
About us
The International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC) is a Texas-based not-for-profit membership organization whose vision is a world free from health-related suffering. Our four strategic domains of activity are advocacy, education, research, and information dissemination. IAHPC is a non-state actor (NSA) in official relations with the World Health Organization (WHO) and a non-governmental organization (NGO) in consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). To maintain our independence and avoid conflicts of interest, we are funded only by charitable donations, grants, and membership dues.
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http://hospicecare.com/home/
External link for International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC)
- Industry
- Hospitals and Health Care
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Houston, TX
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1999
- Specialties
- Hospice and Palliative Care, Education Palliative Care and Pain Treatment, Access to Controlled Medicines, Palliative Care and Pain Treatment Policies, and Research in palliative care
Locations
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5535 Memorial Drive
Suite F - PM 509
Houston, TX 77007, US
Employees at International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC)
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Carlos Roa
Director médico en Antes de Partir A.C. Director médico In House Medical Services.
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Victoria Hewitt
Palliative Care Physician. Expert in palliative care service delivery and education
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Katherine Pettus
Consultant @International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care
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Jazmín Brand Galindo
Médico Adscrito de Medicina Paliativa y Clínica del Dolor en CMN Bajío
Updates
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SHARING EXPERIENCE Kazakhstan's 25-year journey from no hospice care to today's very different landscape, including key factors to success. A report by Gulnara Kunirova in IAHPC's Pallinews: https://bit.ly/4bwIAn9
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India’s Cancer Aid Society (CAS) thinks big. Its plan is to further the groundwork for palliative care throughout a country that recently surpassed China as the most populated in the world. The society is midway through an ambitious two-year plan aimed at three key targets: government, health care workers, and communities. CAS Secretary Dr. Piyush Gupta sat down with IAHPC recently to outline recent successes & a political challenge. Read more in IAHPC Pallinews: https://bit.ly/4dDZu4X
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Palliative sedation is NOT assisted suicide: A statement—with explanation—made at a symposium, & other palliative care advocacy news by IAHPC's Senior Advocacy & Partnerships Director Katherine Pettus. https://bit.ly/4bcxvrk
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IAHPC teams work to improve availability of controlled medicines, including in emergencies, for people of all ages with communicable and non-communicable diseases, persons with #disabilities and in humanitarian disasters. Controlled medicines are essential to relieve severe pain and breathlessness, yet they are often left out of emergency kits, or taken out by border and customs agents leaving people in terrible suffering. Please support our work.
"First, war kits supplied by the International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC and World Health Organization were distributed to 200 hospitals and clinics around the country. They contained basic medical supplies to treat traumatic injuries and burns that could be caused by the use of white phosphorus." do these controlled medicines? Morphine? Necessary for traumatic injuries and care of NCD patients. International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC) will advocate for this at #WHA77. Support our efforts at http://www.hospicecare.com. Hibah Osman Ebtesam Ahmed, Pharm.D, MS, BCMTMS Nahla Gafer mhoira leng Rachel Coghlan
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Stella's tips for nurses, by pioneering palliative care nurse Stella Rithara of Kenya, in IAHPC's Pallinews. https://bit.ly/4dhvCLi Also, institutions that inspire: Recognition Award recipients Ndi Moyo Palliative Care Trust; Gujarat Cancer & Research Institute; and Cátedra de Cures Pal-liatives – Fundación La Caixa.
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Liliana De Lima reports on IAHPC's presence (Scholars, posters, etc.) at the ALCP congress in Colombia. https://bit.ly/3xDQFrh Also, IAHPC's educational directory has myriad details about palliative care programs around the world: it's an excellent resource for upcoming students. https://bit.ly/49wL0As
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Palliative care advocacy monthly roundup: the ALCP congress, advances at high-level meetings—a resolution on controlled medicines, pledges to improve availability—a model West African drug law, & more. By IAHPC's Katherine Pettus in Pallinews. https://bit.ly/3VY3pDj
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Read this week's Pallinews for the latest updates!
“We are very grateful to Embassy of Belgium in Vienna - Permanent Representation to the UN & IAEA - for being the lead European country at CND on this issue and for tabling a draft resolution for approval by CND67, co-sponsored by Côte d’Ivoire, on improving availability of controlled medicines worldwide, with special attention to children.” The resolution owas approved unanimously and can now be used for advocacy. ICPCN - International Children's Palliative Care Network Julia Downing Cairdeas International Palliative Care Trust Joan Marston UNODC https://lnkd.in/exMCFYKk
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