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Lois Chingandu Frontline AIDS #SouthAfrica challenges African NGO leaders to step up in funding crisis, decolonize aid & prevent new AIDS epidemic.African Pall Care Assn webinar. @IAHPC helping with free national PC assn membership & advocacy & clinical practice courses iahpc.org/members-sect...

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The people of Kerala, through their government-run healthcare system, have demonstrated that the solution lies in expanding & investing in the public sector. Only collective, state-controlled healthcare can ensure that needs of all people are met, regardless of ability to pay tinyurl.com/yctmn5r7

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Medicine for these times. katherinepettusconsulting.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/p...

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Palliative care as prophetic resistance I was privileged this week to participate in a webinar organized by PallChase, (Palliative Care in Humanitarian Aid Situations and Emergencies) titled "Making the case for palliative care in humanitarian settings," and presented on the international…

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Dr Katherine Pettus @kpettus.bsky.social speaks to www.pallchase.org on the Global Normative Framework to advocate for palliative care, epecially in humanitarian emergencies and disasters.

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Zoom Registration Links: First Session: twoworldscancer.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Second Session: twoworldscancer.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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New Joint UN policy brief “Encourages Member States to address well-being & adequate health care of older persons, including …#palliativecare... through expanding educational opportunities for all health professionals working with older persons." IAHPC is on the job! tinyurl.com/yc6xsshp

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Report on @iahpc.org ’s World Day of the Sick webinar with a link to the recording! katherinepettusconsulting.wordpress.com/2025/02/15/p...

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Palliative care as a practice of hope The Advocacy Program hosted a webinar titled “Palliative Care as a Practice of Hope,” to align with the 33rd WDS “hope does not disappoint” theme. The live audience of over 150 people from around the world heard how two palliative care chaplains, a classical…

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Join us for a very interesting conversation between palliative care practitioners of different disciplines, faiths, countries & cultures. How do they identify golden threads of hope? Register👉 tinyurl.com/5d44x9us

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@iahpc.org gold stars to ⭐️📷Dr. Rabih El Chammay, @mophleb includes #palliativecare in national statement on #NCDs @WHO #EB156. We also heard Brunei & India give PC a mention. IAHPC advocacy slowly taking root & flowering!

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The world awoke this morning to the news that the first flight of US immigrant deportees had arrived at the American prison in Guantanamo. My mind immediately went to the good Germans who heard about Jewish deportations to the camps during the 1930's and 40's.

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Buchenwald by any other name? Via Euronews: First military flight carrying deported US migrants lands in Guantanamo. www.euronews.com/2025/02/05/f...

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An urgent situation we are challenged to meet.

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A compromised global health immune system will need more palliative care Washington's purge of development aid and global health budgets will drive a surge in demand for palliative care in countries that depend on that aid to reduce preventable mortality and provide life saving services. When…

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I am speaking tomorrow on global palliative care for older persons at the @PanthersGrey of NY webinar. Register tinyurl.com/2u8rrhv7

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It's tomorrow! @DanMundayNG Register tinyurl.com/yus8nvyc

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WHO comments on United States announcement of intent to withdraw bit.ly/4hrbeJ7

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I will be presenting on global unavailability of int.controlled essential medicines Ensuring the Right to Health through evidence-based public health approach to substance use challenges Session organized by DIANOVA Languages: English, Spanish Registration link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Changing the world: one country at a time “how does palliative care change the world" Panelists answered that question by showing how they were increasing the palliative care literacy in their country to include system-level awareness of those who live and die with preventable health related…

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Thank you @ascocancer.bsky.social for devoting an entire issue of JCO OP to the topic of #FinancialToxicity and thank you to @fumikochino.bsky.social @ryannipp.bsky.social for inviting me to 🖊️ a piece for this, on my experience with financial toxicity as someone with privilege and savings.

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financial toxicity may result in negative caregiver health outcomes, which can in turn affect patient outcomes. These negative caregiver effects may persist into the bereavement phase”

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it’s cheaper to fund assisted suicide than it is to invest in the services people need to live. And let’s be clear: that means poor, chronically ill, disabled and marginalised people most of all. www.thecanary.co/long-read/20...

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"Pope Francis’ Jubilee Bull tells us that “More than a question of generosity, this is a matter of justice.” The immense economic inequality and inequity in palliative care development in the world today didn’t happen overnight, or even in the past century." catholicexchange.com/global-palli...

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Why "could be"? It is!! Big problem!"Assisted dying could be seen as easier and cheaper than building health equity, for preventive and curative treatments & #palliativecare. Access to universal health care, including PC, is an urgent global priority." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Abímbọ́lá continually argues for the local and the specific. He is accordingly wary of general prescriptions. He advises us to seek (and study) interventions that open up freedom to local agency. He hopes we will find “rules that default to justice”. speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/01/06/w...

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A still relevant article !! www.medicusmundi.ch/en/advocacy/...

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"The question that lingers from this experience is not just about who will care for those in need, but how we, as a society, can create the conditions for all individuals to live with dignity, autonomy, and support" palliumindia.org/2024/12/navi...

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"Seriously ill people and their caregivers can be pilgrims of hope. Few have ephemeral expectations of any earthly benefits. Few are optimists....“Hope too is needed by the sick and those who suffer in body and spirit; they can find comfort in our closeness and care.”

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Well done @smritirana.bsky.social for making this argument. Time to make the case for reparations in the form of funding, technical assistance, and debt relief. #Restorativejustice eapcnet.wordpress.com/2024/10/22/t...

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Reposting this from last year. Plus ça change. More children than ever need palliative care. globalpalliativecare.wordpress.com/2023/12/28/m...

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“Changing societal attitudes to death and grief demands bold, multifaceted action…none of this will succeed without death and grief literacy: the knowledge, skills, and confidence to face mortality with our eyes open.” Brilliant piece! www.bmj.com/content/387/...

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“At my own institution, our #palliativemedicine physicians report regular #opioid shortages leading to poorly controlled #pain for their patients.” www.statnews.com/2024/12/27/o...

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It will really help to integrate #palliativecare into health systems to relieve the suffering of people of all ages with NCDs.

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Very important issue. katherinepettusconsulting.wordpress.com/2024/12/21/p...

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There is light! www.npr.org/2024/12/23/g...

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“Palliative care is the ethical fourth way between abandonment, overtreatment, and euthanasia. It is an interdisciplinary response to nonpreventable death that reduces suffering in both quantifiable and nonquantifiable ways."

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Oops! "Of particular alarm were reports of #MAID being used in prisons while incarcerated people were shackled to their beds..& practitioners offering it when patients asked for support for living." nationalpost.com/news/group-t...

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#assisteddyingbill Joint statement by five #palliativecare physicians in @thelancet.bsky.social Choice can only be exercised when options exist that enable equitable access to comprehensive care @libbysallnow.bsky.social

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Today International Migrants Day worldmigrationreport.iom.int/news/world-m... we honour those caring for migrants with #palliativecare needs. The humanitarian sector and palliative care communities must work together for palliative care for ALL. pallchase.org

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The second, post-Covid edition is out. Please email [email protected] for your free copy !

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““…potentially inappropriate end-of-life care may be considered an economic waste within the healthcare system because the resources spent on it cannot be used for other, more beneficial purposes.” ijic.org/articles/10....

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“Vulnerable, frightened patients may only feel loved, accepted and valued by their families if they take the decision to end their lives by assisted suicide.” newsletter.carolinecriadoperez.com/p/they-just-...

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