Message from the Chair and Executive Director
Dear readers:
We are pleased to announce that IAHPC has received a grant from the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund (DPWMF) to support individuals working in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe towards covering the costs of:
- Post-qualification certified courses in palliative care, and
- Courses to build competence and skills in research in palliative care.
We are deeply grateful with the DPWMF, especially with Olivia Dix, Head of the Palliative Care Initiative for this grant and its confidence in our organization, and especially for its support to the development of hospice and palliative care in Sub Saharan Africa. In a few weeks we will be sending a call for applications. We look forward to this extraordinary opportunity.
One of the most critical tools to enable and facilitate research to improve patient care is access to new information and transfer of technologies. Scientific publications and peer reviewed journals are one of the most powerful tools in this regard. However, access to publications is very limited in developing countries for several reasons, but most importantly because of high subscription costs and membership fees that are required by some of the journals.
Many of you are aware that last year IAHPC signed an agreement with EBSCO, to offer access to our members to a large database of journals and publications (CINAHL). Providing CINAHL to our members at no cost is an effort to help provide access to important palliative care journals. Through the database, our members are able to access thousands of citations, as well as full online access to hundreds of journals, including the following:
- Indian Journal of Palliative Care
- International Journal of Palliative Nursing
- Internet Journal of Pain, Symptom Control & Palliative Care
- Journal of Palliative Medicine
- Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy.
- Palliative Medicine
- Progress in Palliative Care
This edition of the newsletter includes instructions on how to access the CINAHL database and how to download full text articles located in these journals.
We also want to highlight Pallipedia, our online Palliative Care Dictionary at www.pallipedia.org. The dictionary has 775 terms and 881 definitions related to the field of palliative care, and currently registers almost 200 daily visitors. Please visit Pallipedia and enjoy this extraordinary resource.
Until next month,
Roberto Wenk, MD
Chair, Board of Directors
Liliana De Lima, MHA
Executive Director
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