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Where is the money to bridge the Cancer Divide? Learning from NCDs in the Jamaican context.
Non Communicable diseases (NCDs) including palliative care were discussed at the United Nations’ New York Headquarters in September with a High Level Meeting. Talk but few commitments to the growing problem of NCDs in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC). Margaret Chan, the WHO DIrector-General, made the a further call for resources for prevent and … Continue reading
“A Silk Purse from a Sow’s Ear?” The 2011 WPCA Global Palliative Care Report Card
This World Hospice and Palliative Day, Oct 8th, 20011, the World Palliative Care Alliance (@thewpca) released a new report, Mapping Levels of Palliative Care Development: A Global Update 2011. Commendations to the principal authors, Tom Lynch, David Clark and Stephen Connor who make comparisons with a previous 2006 report. They analyze, using a method that they … Continue reading
Morphine, an outcome measure for improved control of NCDs??
As part of the historic UN High Level Meeting on Non Communicable Diseases, the WHO hosted a “Side event” on Targets and Indicators for NCDs. This meeting is soooo important that CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and Sanjay Gupta have been broadcasting live from outside the gates!! :-) A “side event?” Well, this Summit has a plenary … Continue reading
Palliative Care in the UN Summit on NCDs: A little goes a long way! Lifebeforedeath Film 18
The UN Declaration on Non-Communicable Disease is in! OK, it is going to be discussed and ratified at the meeting from Sept 19-20 in New York but the negotiation have concluded and it is all but complete. But palliative care is in. Yes 4 places!! You make think that this is not much but the … Continue reading
Kenya and Palliative Care: Care across the Continuum for all!
As we move forward (or is it backward) towards the UN Summit for Non Communicable Disease, it is essential that we consider both treatment and prevention strategies for NCDs. As Diederik Lohman, of Human Rights Watch, reminds us we should not just be preventing “avoidable deaths,” a common mantra around global health but also preventing … Continue reading
