Albania

Ryder Albania Association
Tirana, Albania
Fatmir Prifti
$24,293
This grant supports national training courses in palliative care; a travel grant to attend the 7th Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care in Palermo, Italy, April 1-5, 2001; a translation grant for the World Health Organization's (WHO) "Cancer Pain Relief with a Guide to Opioid Availability" and "Symptom Relief in Terminal Illness."

Azerbaijan

Women's Jewish Organization
Baku, Azerbaijan
Dr. Larisa Reichrudel
$2,965
Translation grant to translate World Health Organization publications into Azeri: WHO Cancer pain relief with a guide to opioid availability, WHO Symptom Relief in Terminal Illness; WHO Cancer pain relief and palliative care in children.

Bosnia

Dom Zaravga-Palliative Care at Home
Sarajevo, Bosnia
Anes Sosevic
$1,798
Travel grant to attend the European Association of Palliative Care's 1st Congress on Research & Development in Palliative Care in Berlin, Germany, December 7-9, 2000.

Institute of Oncology of Clinical University-Sarajevo
Sarajevo, Bosnia
Nermina Obralic
$1,820
Travel grant to attend the European Association of Palliative Care's 1st Congress on Research & Development in Palliative Care in Berlin, Germany, December 7-9, 2000.

Dom Zdravjee, Njega
Sarajevo, Bosnia
Anne Cunningham
$5,000
This grant supports the translation of "Symptom Management in Advanced Cancer" by Robert Twycross, "Domiciliary Palliative Care" by Derek Doyle, and "Palliative Care: The Nursing Role," edited by Lugton & Kindlen.

Dom Zdravga-Palliative Home Care
Sarajevo, Bosnia
Lejla Bezdrob
$1,997
Travel grant to attend the 13th International Congress on Care of the Terminally Ill, September 25-29, 2000, in Montreal, Canada.

Bulgaria

Palliative Care Foundation
Sofia, Bulgaria
Ilya Nissimov, MD
$18,920
This grant supports a national education program on palliative care designed to train health care staff of oncology departments in Bulgaria, and to promote the concept and practice of palliative care.

Nadejda Association
Bilyiana Zhitarova
$4,980
This grant supports the translation of “Palliative Medicine,” by Roger Woodruff.

Czech Republic

Open Society Fund - Prague
Prague, Czech Republic
Radek Miracky
$3,000
Travel grant to attend the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists Fellowship for Anaesthesiologists conferences.

Croatia

Croatian Society for Hospice/Palliative Care
Zagreb, Croatia
Anica Jusic
$76,811
This grant supports a palliative care national/regional education program; travel grant scholarships for palliative care team to attend a four-week clinical rotation at the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care in Buffalo, New York; a travel grant to attend the European Association of Palliative Care's 1st Congress on Research & Development in Palliative Care in Berlin, Germany, December 7-9, 2000; a translation grant for "Talking to Cancer Patients and their Relatives" by Faulkner & Macguire, "Cancer Pain Relief" by the WHO, and "Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care in Children" by the WHO.

Hungary

Erzsebet Hospice Otthon
Miskolc, Hungary
Dr. Csaba Simko
$20,000
This grant supports a palliative care training and resource center for healthcare professionals in northeastern Hungary.

Hungarian Hospice Association
Budapest, Hungary
Katalin Hegedus Mukne
$20,000
This grant supports a palliative care continuing education program for physicians, nurses, and volunteers.

Semmelweis University of Medicine
Budapest, Hungary
Katalin Hegedus Mukne
$2,000
Travel grant to attend the 7th Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care in Palermo, Italy, April 1-5, 2001.

Latvia

Latvian University Clinical Children's Hospital
Riga, Latvia
Anda Jansone
$5,483
This grant supports a scholarship to study at the Hospice and Palliative Care Study Seminar in Warsaw.

Latvian Oncology Center, Palliative Care Unit
Riga, Latvia
Vilnis Sosars
$3,781
This grant supports translation of various booklets from international conferences.

Lithuania

Kaunas University of Medicine
Kaunas, Lithuania
Arvydas Seskevicius
$4,220
This grant supports the translation and distribution of the books "Palliative Care: The Nursing Role" by Jean Lugton and Margaret Kindlen and "The Creative Option of Palliative Care: A Manual for Health Professionals" edited by Hodder and Turley.

Kaunas University of Medicine
Kaunas, Lithuania
Arunas Sciupokas
$19,965
This grant supports the development of a national policy in palliative care in the Baltics.

Kaunas Terminal Care Hospital
Kaunas, Lithuania
Nerija Bucnyte
$1,966
Travel grant to attend the 13th Congress on Care of the Terminally Ill, September 25-29, 2000 in Montreal.

Kaunas Terminal Care Hospital
Kaunas, Lithuania
Rita Kabasinskiene
$1,966
Travel grant to attend the 13th Congress on Care of the Terminally Ill, September 25-29, 2000 in Montreal.

Open Society Fund - Lithuania
Vilnius, Lithuania
Virginija Ambrazaviciene
$330
Palliative care program travel grant.

Macedonia

University Children's Hospital
Skopje, Macedonia
Sofijanka Glamocanin
$7,000
This grant supports the translation of "Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care in Children", by the WHO, and a travel grant to attend the European Association of Palliative Care's 1st Congress on Research & Development in Palliative Care in Berlin, Germany, December 7-9, 2000.

Moldova

Second Breath Gerontological
Balti, Moldova
Irina Baikalova
$30,000
This grant supports the translation of "Palliative Medicine," by Roger Woodruff, a palliative care scholarship for training at St. Christopher's Hospice in London, UK, and funding to create a national palliative care education program and encourage its adoption on the state level.

Centre for AIDS Prevention and Control
National Scientific Practical Centre of Preventive Medicine
Chisinau, Moldova
Silvia Stratulat
$9,960
This grant supports a national education program grant to develop a national standard of palliative care in the Republic of Moldova.

Soros Foundation - Moldova
Chisinau, Moldova
Viorel Soltan
$1,951
Travel grants for participants from Moldova to attend the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists Fellowship for Anaesthesiologists conferences in France and the United Kingdom.

Mongolia

National Medical University of Mongolia
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Erdenechimeg Batsuuri
$2,964
This grant supports the translation of the WHO's "Symptom Relief in Terminal Illness."

National Medical University of Mongolia
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Davaasuren Odontuya, MD, PhD
$8,034
This grant supports the translation of "Principles for Care of Patients at the End of Life: An Emerging Consensus among the Specialties of Medicine" edited by Cassel and Foley, "Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care in Children" by the WHO; and a scholarship for one-month palliative care training at the National Cancer Institute in Bratislava.

Poland

Gdansk Medical Academy
Gdansk, Poland
Krystyna de Walden-Galuszko
$1,450
Travel grant to attend the 7th Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care in Palermo, Italy, April 1-5, 2001.

Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences
Poznan, Poland
Jacek Luczak
$54,900
This grant supports a palliative care resource and training center for Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Warsaw Hospice for Children
Warsaw, Poland
Tomasz Dangel
$5,000
This grant supports the translation of "Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care in Children" by the WHO.

Regionalny Zespol Opieki Palietywnej-Dom Sue Ryder (Sue Ryder Home)
Bydgoszcz, Poland
Andrej Stachowiak
$19,750
This grant supports a regional education program for nurses and doctors from Poland, Hungary, Latvia, and Lithuania.

Warsaw Hospice for Children
Warsaw, Poland
Agnieszka Chmiel, PhD
$2,000
Travel grant to attend the 7th Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care in Palermo, Italy, April 1-5, 2001.

Warsaw Hospice for Children
Warsaw, Poland
Marek Karwacki, MD
$2,000
Travel grant to attend the 7th Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care in Palermo, Italy, April 1-5, 2001.

National Research Center for Mother and Child
Warsaw, Poland
Tomasz Dangel
$75,000
This grant supports a palliative care resource and training center. The center will create a home-care model and make home-care a viable alternative to hospital care for children with life-limiting conditions and their families, and will provide ongoing education in pediatric palliative care to healthcare professionals and hospice workers.

Polish Society of Palliative Care
Poznan, Poland
Jacek Luczak
$34,725
This grant supports an international education course on palliative care; and the practical training of 16 course participants from Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Stefan Batory Foundation - Poland
Warsaw, Poland
Ewa Duriasz
$765
Travel grants to attend the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists Fellowship for Anaesthesiologists conferences.

Romania

Hospital of St. Luke
Bucharest, Romania
Maria Lungu
$1,267
Travel grant to attend the First International Geriatric Palliative Care Congress in New York City, October 11-14, 2000.

Clinical Children's Hospital Oradea
Oradea City, Romania
Maria Valentina Schiopu
$2,000
This grant supports a scholarship to train at the Warsaw Hospice for Children.

Clinical Children's Hospital Oradea
Oradea City, Romania
Gabriela Miculschi
$4,425
This grant supports the translation of "A Guide to the Development of Children's Palliative Care Services" report of the Joint Working Party of the Association for Children with Life-Threatening or Terminal Conditions and their Families, and the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, "Withholding or Withdrawing Life Saving Treatment in Children: A Framework for Practice" by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and "Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care in Children" by the WHO.

Hospital of St. Luke
Bucharest, Romania
Gabriela Rahnea-Nita
$1,420
Travel grant to attend the European Association of Palliative Care's 1st Congress on Research & Development in Palliative Care in Berlin, Germany, December 7-9, 2000.

National Association for Palliative Care
Brasov, Romania
Daniela Mosoiu
$80,000
This grant supports a regional resource and education center for palliative care in South-Eastern Europe. The grant supports translation of "Cancer Pain Relief" by Roger Woodruff and "Symptom Management" by Robert Twycross.

Foundation for an Open Society - Romania
Bucharest, Romania
Ioana Mirela Daramus, MD
$1,000
This grant supports distribution of a palliative care grants competition announcement.

Russia

Open Society Institute - Russia
Moscow, Russia
Natalia Vasilieva
$310
Travel grant attend the Polish Society of Palliative Care's course on Palliative and Hospice Care.

Russian Military Medical Academy
St. Petersburg, Russia
Andrei A. Novik
$19,020
This grant supports a palliative care national education training program for medical professionals and social workers throughout Russia.

Slovenia

Slovensko Drutsvo Hospice
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tatana Zargi
$50,000
This grant supports the establishment of the Slovenian Hospice Education Center.

Palliative Care Development Institute
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Barbara Ravnik
$75,000
This grant supports the establishment of the Palliative Care Development Institute.

Open Society Institute - Slovenia
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Barbara Ravnik
$851
Travel grant to meet with the European Association of Palliative Care and Project on Death in America staff in New York.

Ukraine

Research Center for Social Policy
Kyiv, Ukraine
Nadya Valentyuk
$4,058
This grant supports the translation of the WHO's "Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care in Children," "Symptom Relief in Terminal Illness," and "Cancer Pain Relief with a Guide to Opioid Availability."

Yugoslavia

Institute for Oncology and Radiology of Serbia
Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Sinisa Radulovic, MD, PhD
$5,000
This grant supports the translation of the WHO's "Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care in Children," and "Symptom Relief in Terminal Illness."

Regional

European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC)
Trondheim, Norway
Stein Kaasa, MD
$5,000
Travel grant for participants to attend the European Association Palliative Care's 1st Congress on Research & Development in Palliative Care in Berlin, Germany, December 7-9, 2000.