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About OSI & Palliative Care
The goal of OSI’s International Palliative Care Initiative is to improve end-of-life care for patients and their families, with a special focus on vulnerable populations including the elderly, children, and patients with cancer or HIV/AIDS.  more

Events

Salzburg Seminar on Palliative Care and Nursing
Salzburg, Austria
March 30, 2008
The Salzburg Seminar on Palliative Care and Nursing brought together nurses from throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to discuss all aspects of palliative care and nursing.  more

Advocacy for Palliative Care in Africa: A Focus on Essential Pain Medication Accessibility in Southern Africa
Windhoek, Namibia
February 27, 2008
OSI's International Palliative Care Initiative provided support to the African Palliative Care Association (APCA) to complete a three-day workshop on access to medicines in Southern Africa.  more

Publications & Articles

OSI Stories: Dying at Home, Keeping a Promise
December 17, 2007
A look at how one OSI grantee is helping change the process of dying in Slovenia and across the rest of Eastern Europe.  more

Grants

Palliative Cancer Care
This program is designed to support a cancer center or general hospital with a focused oncology program, which will fund a clinical care physician to develop a palliative care program. more

International Pain Policy Fellowship
The International Pain Policy Fellowship provides fellows with the knowledge and skills necessary to develop and implement a project to evaluate national policy and improve the availability of pain medications for pain relief and palliative care in their respective countries.  more

News & Announcements

OSI Supports National Palliative Care Plan in Romania
April 2008
With support from OSI's International Palliative Care Initiative, The Hospice Casa Sperantei Foundation is working with the Romanian Ministry of Health and the Federation of Associations for Cancer Patients to develop the first National Palliative Care Plan in Romania.  more

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