Regional Reports

Diana Legacy Fund to Support Work in Sub-Saharan Africa

Fund to Host Wheels of Caring Kick-off on October 12

(Alexandria, Va) – The National Hospice Foundation proudly announces the creation of the Diana Legacy Fund, a program supporting the work of the Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa.  The mission of the Diana Legacy Fund is to support projects that encourage and sustain hospice and palliative care, particularly in sub-Saharan Afric. Wheels of Caring is one such project that the Fund is starting this month…”

For details see URL:
www.nationalhospicefoundation.org/i4a/pages/Index.cfm?pageID=83

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International Observatory on End of Life Care

Dear colleagues,

Today, the Observatory has posted a revised country report for Romania.

You will find further information at the following link:
http://www.eolc-observatory.net/global_analysis/romania.htm

Kind regards,
Anthony

Anthony Greenwood
Information Support Officer
International Observatory on End of Life Care
Institute for Health Research
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YG
United Kingdom

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Great Britain

• The British Government announced 50m pounds to fund physical improvements to hospices caring for older citizens. This funding is spread over two years.
• Great Britain celebrated Children’s Hospice Week (16 th-23 rd September) with hundreds of events in an effort to increase awareness of children’s hospices; the event was organized by the Association of Children’s Hospices.
• A survey to determine the economic value of volunteers working in hospices found that their value to charitable hospices is likely to be over 112 pounds per year, almost equivalent to the total contribution to adult hospices by the NHS.

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Palliative Care Fellowships Awarded

The Pain & Policy Studies Group (PPSG) is pleased to announce the selection of eight Fellows for its new International Pain Policy Fellowship program. This two-year project is funded by a grant from the Open Society Institute's (OSI) International Palliative Care Initiative.

The purpose of the Fellowship is to assist low and middle income countries to improve patient access to pain medicines recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for pain of cancer, HIV/AIDS and other diseases. United Nations agencies, including the WHO and the International Narcotics Control Board, have expressed concern about the low consumption of controlled pain medicines in the world, especially in developing countries.

Fellows will train with the PPSG and other international experts in Madison, Wisconsin, USA during the week of 23-27 October 2006. They will develop action plans to improve opioid availability during the next two years with technical support from the PPSG and grant support from the OSI.

The eight selected Fellows are:

   1. Dr. Simbo Daisy Amanor-Boadu, MBBS, FMCA  Nigeria
 
   2. Prof. Sne ana Bošnjak, MD, PhD  Serbia
  
   3. Prof. Rosa Buitrago, BS, MCPh  Panama
 
   4. Mrs. Nguyen Thi Phoung Cham, Pharm  Vietnam

   5. Dr. Henry Ddungu, MB ChB, M.Med  Uganda

   6. Dr. Jorge Eisenchlas, MD, MSc  Argentina

   7. Dr. Marta Ximena LeÃn, MD  Colombia

   8. Mr. Gabriel Madiye, DPH   Sierra Leone