Bulgaria

MHAT-Kazanlak Palliative Care Center
Kazanlak, Bulgaria
Maria Gencheva Dimova
$7,050 with a $7,050 match from Open Society Foundation-Sofia
MHAT-Kazanlak Home Based Palliative Care Program
Funds to support MHAT-Kazanlak Palliative Care Center team's complex home care program, which provides medical, psychological, social, and spiritual support to patients and families in Kazanlak suffering from life-limiting illnesses.

Association IZIDA
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Dr. Dimiter Dimitrov, Project Manager
$6,342.50 with a $6,342.50 match from Open Society Foundation-Sofia
Home-Based Palliative Care Program
Funds to support the development of a home-based palliative care program in the Plovdiv region of Bulgaria.

Charity Association Hospice Milosurdie
Sofia, Bulgaria
Donka Paprikova
$5,810 with a $5,810 match from Open Society Foundation Bulgaria
Home-Based Palliative Care Program
Funds to support the development of a home-based palliative care program in Sofia.

Association "Partnership and Ethnos"
Ardino, Bulgaria
Krassen Palagachev, Coordinator
$4,923 with a $4,923 match from Open Society Foundation-Sofia
Hospice Home Care Program
Funds to support a hospice home care program in Ardino.

Open Society Club – Veliko Tarnovo
Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Svetla Georgieva Nedeva, Project Coordinator
$7,012 with a $7,012 match from Open Society Foundation-Sofia
Home-Based Palliative Care Program
Funds to support a home-based palliative care program.

Open Society Foundation Bulgaria
Sofia, Bulgaria
Elana Zlatanova, Coordinator
$3,152 with a $3,152 match from Open Society Foundation-Sofia
Palliative Care Conference
Funds to support a one-and-a-half day palliative care conference.

Open Society Foundation Bulgaria
Sofia, Bulgaria
Irena Alexieva
$2,543 with a $2,543 match from Open Society Foundation-Sofia
WHO Booklet Translation
Funds to support the translation, publication, and dissemination of two WHO Booklets: Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care in Children and Symptom Management in Terminal Illness.

Pleven 21st Century Foundation
Pleven, Bulgaria
Nedyo Georgiev, M.D.
$5,907.50 with a $5,907.50 match from Open Society Foundation-Sofia
Additional funding:

• Holland Foundation for CEE—Maria Petkova ( mpetkova@infotel.bg), Country Coordinator
• British Know-How Fund

Home Hospice Care for Cancer Patients
Funds to support a hospice home based care program for cancer patients.

Open Society Foundation-Sofia
Sofia, Bulgaria
Emilia Tontcheva
$12,804.38 with a $12,804.38 match from Open Society Foundation Bulgaria
OSF-Sofia Palliative Care Activities
Funds to draft a palliative care needs assessment; create a unified database of existing hospice and palliative care programs; advocate for necessary legal changes; develop standards for palliative care; translate and distribute education materials; organize a national conference; provide scholarships for training in existing centers of excellence; provide training for nurses and doctors.

The Medical College of Dobrich
Dobrich, Bulgaria
Neli Spasova, M.D., Director
$2,975 with a $2,975 match from Open Society Foundation-Sofia
Palliative Care Training Program for Nurses
This grant funds postgraduate training for nurses in palliative care at the medical college.

Croatia

Croatian Society for Hospice/Palliative Care CMA
Zagreb, Croatia
Anica Jusic, President
$35,000 ZUG Grant
Palliative Care National Regional Education Program Resource Training Center
This grant provides a second year of financial support to the Palliative Care National/Regional Education Program Resource Training Center. The Palliative Care Resource Training Center provides public and professional education and hands-on training for health care professionals in Croatia and the surrounding region. In addition, the Center provides numerous palliative care education programs for the public on topics such as pain and symptom management, advance care planning, and grief and bereavement.

Czech Republic

Saint Joseph's Hospice and Pain Centre
Brno, Czech Republic
Dr. Zdenek Bystricky, Director
$10,000 with a $10,000 match from the Open Society Fund-Prague
Palliative Care Development Initiatives
These funds support the development of palliative care in the Czech Republic through four separate initiatives:

• Research and evaluate present care of the dying
• Develop a plan for palliative care development
• Launch a public and professional palliative care awareness campaign
• Support a pilot mobile hospice program

Georgia

Open Society Georgia Foundation
Tbilisi, Georgia
Lasha Zaalishvili
$735 with a $735 match from Open Society Georgia Foundation
These funds helped pay travel costs for a pediatrician of general practice, and a theologian, so that they could attend a palliative care course in Budapest, Hungary from September 24-29, 2002.

Open Society Georgia Foundation
Tbilisi, Georgia
Lasha Zaalishvili
$3,545 with a $3,545 match from Open Society Georgia Foundation
These funds will support the development of a palliative care model at the Cancer Prevention Center of the National Cancer Center in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Hungary

Hungarian Hospice-Palliative Care Association
Budapest, Hungary
Dr. Katalin Hegedus, Professor
$15,000
Two years of funding to support the nationwide hospice and palliative care education and training activities of this professional association.

Erzsebet (Elizabeth) Hospice Foundation
Miskole, Hungary
Csaba Simko, M.D.
$15,000
Two years of funding to support education and training for health care providers in the Northeast region of Hungary.

Lithuania

Kaunas University of Medicine
Kaunas, Lithuania
Arvtydas Seskevicius
$7,500 with a $7,500 match from Open Society Fund-Lithuania
The purpose of this grant is to educate Lithuanian society, medical personnel, and politicians about he importance of palliative care and to prepare a strategy to integrate palliative care into the health care system and policies of Lithuania.

Moldova

Second Breath of the Elderly
Or Balti, Moldova
Irina Baicalov, M.D.
$4,736.50 with a $4,736.50 match from Soros Foundation-Moldova
Funds to create a palliative care training center in Beltsy, Moldova that will organize training programs for family physicians in the north of Moldova.

Medical Territorial Medical Association "Centru"
Chisinau, Moldova
Anadela Vasillii Glavan, M.D.
$3,800.50 with a $3,800.50 match from Soros Foundation-Moldova
Funds to develop a palliative care information resource center to provide psychosocial counseling for patients and families living with life-limiting illness.

Philanthropic Foundation "Angelus-Moldova"
Chisinau, Moldova
Valerian Isac, M.D.
$3,800.50 with a $3,800.50 match from Soros Foundation-Moldova
Funds to support two palliative care training initiatives: Three ten-day training programs for 27 physicians in central Moldova and two training programs for the trainers.

The Nursing Association of the Republic of Moldova
Chisinau, Moldova
Elena Stempovskaia
$1,617.50 with a $1,617.50 match from Soros Foundation-Moldova
Funds to support the palliative care training of 40 nurses from the Orhei and Cheadirlunga districts in the center and south of Moldova.

Poland

Warsaw Hospice for Children
Warsaw, Poland
Tomasz Dangel, M.D.
$23,000
Funds to support the five-day national pediatric palliative care course and additional training activities at the resource center.

Romania

Hospice Casa Sperantei
Brasov, Romania
Daniela Mosoiu, M.D.
$35,000
This grant provides a second year of support to the Palliative Care Resource Training Center at the Hospice Casa Sperantei in Brasov, Romania. The Palliative Care Resource Training Center provides public and professional education and hands-on training for health care professionals in Romania and the surrounding region. Health care professionals spend one week to six months training at the Center. They participate in daily patient home care visits and attend Center rounds, conferences, and didactic lectures on all aspects of palliative care. In addition, the Center provides numerous palliative care education programs for the public on topics such as pain and symptom management, advance care planning, and grief and bereavement.

Hospice Casa Sperantei
Brasov, Romania
Dr. Daniela Mosoiu
$12,000
These funds support the International Pediatric Palliative Care Conference in Brasov, Romania in 2003.

Russia

Palliative Medicine and Rehabilitation Fund
Moscow, Russia
Dr. Andreyevich Georgy Novikov, President
$50,000 with a $80,831 match from Open Society Institute Russia
Palliative Care Development
Funds to support the development of a palliative care education and training center in Moscow to train physicians, nurses, and social workers and to develop and publish a palliative care curriculum for physicians and nurses.

Slovakia

Deaconal Association Betania
Bratislava, Slovakia
Igor Andre, M.D.
$5,000
Betania Geriatric Center
These funds will go to support the development of an inpatient hospice unit at the Betania Geriatric Center.

South Africa

Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa
Peggy K. Harper
$50,000
The Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa (FHSSA), a U.S. based foundation, was created to coordinate efforts in the United States to provide financial and workforce support to hospice and palliative care programs in the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. With this grant, FHSSA will assist hospices and palliative care programs to increase capacity by providing support and resources to existing programs and to those initiating hospice and palliative care. This would be accomplished through increasing monies for granting proposals, expanding the partnering initiative of U.S. and sub-Saharan African hospices, and the development of a system for the establishment of Centers of Excellence for South Africa.

Hospice Association of South Africa
JP van Niekerk
$50,000
HASA piloted a model of home-based care, the Integrated Community based Home Care (ICHC) model. The model was implemented at seven hospice sites and research showed that the model is both replicable and cost effective in terms as a model for the provision of palliative care. This grant would replicate the ICHC model as a strategy to "position" member hospices as pivotal role players in the delivery, training and evaluation of palliative care; build the capacity of 5 member hospices to each ‘mentor' 3 other hospices to implement the ICHC model; build the capacity of 15 hospices to implement the ICHC model; and, build the capacity of professional health workers, communities and families to respond appropriately and effectively to patients living with a terminal illness.

Medical Education for South African Blacks (MESAB)
James W. Scott
$200,000
This grant will help build MESAB's capacity to identify training programs in palliative care for health professionals and community workers; provide financial support for such programs; obtain additional funding for such programs from private sector and governmental sources; collaborate with related organizations; and, serve as a catalyst for other projects.

Masoyi Home Based Care
George Snyman
$7,000
This community based home care program provides a continuum of care and support for patients, families and caregivers infected and affected by HIV/AIDS in the Masoyi Tribal Area. The program maintains an HIV/AIDS clinic for testing, counseling and treatment, provides trained staff for an outpatient clinic, a volunteer home based care program, and a community based orphan care program.

Soweto Hospice
Barbara Campbell-Kerr
Witwatersrand, South Africa
$7,000
Hospice Association of the Witwatersrand began operations in 1979, caring for the terminally ill and their families. In 1989 Hospice Witwatersrand began preliminary work in the previously disadvantaged area of Soweto and surrounds. By 1998 the present Hospice in Soweto was erected and opened, first as a day care center and base for the home care sisters and it is presently operating as an in-patient unit with 8/9 beds for the indigent and for symptom management and pain control. The home care sisters use the unit as a base. There are two social workers and two part-time doctors. Day care caters for 12–19 patients per day fetched from different areas of Soweto . The home care sisters' workload has grown so large that they are assisted by 46 community care workers. Approximately 80% of the patients treated by the Hospice in Soweto are AIDS patients. Poverty is rife and food parcels are part of the "treatment".

Nazareth House, Mother and Baby Hospice
Sister Veronica Murphy
Cape Town, South Africa
$7,000
Nazareth House was established in 1992 to care for HIV+ babies who had been abandoned. The Nazareth House aims to provide a loving, stable and secure environment for HIV+ babies and children who have been orphaned, abandoned and abused. Nazareth House provides specialised care and treatment and ensures that each child receives the best medical care and most appropriate education available. Children under care range from a few weeks to ten years old.

Regional

Trent Palliative Care Centre
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, England
Professor David Clark
$75,000
Funds to support the development of a pilot observatory website on hospice and palliative care in Central and Eastern Europe.

Pain & Policy Studies Group
University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center
Madison, Wisconsin
David E. Joranson, Director
$75,000 with a $75,000 match from the U.S. Cancer Pain Relief Committee
Funds to support the resource center for opioid availability in Central and Eastern Europe.