Albania

Albanian National Association of Palliative Care
Korca, Albania
Irena Laska
$5,000
Funds to support a palliative care needs assessment in Albania.

Azerbaijan

OSI Azerbaijan
Lelya B. Imanova $5,000 with a $5,000 match from Open Society Institute-Azerbaijan
Funds to support the translation, publication, and dissemination of three WHO monographs into Azeri.

Bulgaria

Association IZIDA
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Dr. Dimiter Dimitrov
$6,398 with a $6,398 match from Open Society Foundation-Sofia
Funds to support a pilot palliative home-based care program.

Center for Social and Health Care
Turnovo, Bulgaria
Svetla Georgieva Nedeva, M.D.
$6,518 with a $6,518 match from Open Society Foundation-Sofia
Funds to support the development of an organizational model for palliative home care delivery into the national healthcare system.

Medical College of Plovdiv
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Dr. Petronyiya St. Karamitreva
$5,270 with a $5,270 match from Open Society Foundation-Sofia
Funds to support postgraduate palliative care training for nurses.

Bulgarian Palliative Care Association
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Dr. Dimitar Antonov Dimitrov
$3,381 with a $3,381 match from Open Society Foundation-Sofia
Funds to support a national conference on palliative care.

Bulgarian Palliative Care Association
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Dr. Dimitar Antonov Dimitrov
$30,000 with a $30,000 match from Open Society Foundation-Sofia
Funds to work on drug availability, palliative care education, and palliative care policy development in Bulgaria.

Open Society Foundation - Sofia
Elka Zlateva
$2,000 with a $2,000 match from Open Society Foundation-Sofia
Funds to support the publishing and dissemination of the Bulgarian Palliative Needs Assessment Survey.

Open Society Foundation - Sofia
Elka Zlateva
$2,500 with a $2,500 match from Open Society Foundation-Sofia
Funds to support the translation of the End-of-Life Physician Education Curriculum (EPEC) into Bulgarian.

Foundation Pleven
Pleven, Bulgaria
Dr. Nedyu Georgiev
$6,264 with a $6,264 match from Open Society Foundation-Sofia
Funds to support a pilot program for palliative home-based care in the Pleven region.

Croatia

Croatian Society for Hospice/Palliative Care
Zagreb, Croatia
Dr. Anica Jusic
$3,750
Funds to support follow-up activities of the Croatia team who participated in the Budapest Palliative Care Policy Development Workshop in October, 2003.

Czech Republic

Cesta Doma
Dr. Stepan Spinka
$30,000 with a $30,000 match from Open Society Institute-Czech Republic
Funds to support four projects: 1) a research project describing the current state of end-of-life care in the Czech Republic; 2) a project to plan the development of palliative care in the Czech Republic; 3) a palliative care public information campaign; 4) a pilot mobile hospice program.

Georgia

Cancer Prevention Center
National Cancer Center
Tbilisi, Georgia
Dr. Rem Gvamichava
$5,000 with a $5,000 match from Open Society Institute-Georgia
Funds to begin developing a palliative care education training center.

Hungary

Hungarian Hospice Foundation
Budapest, Hungary
Dr. Katalin Muszbek
$1,000
Funds to support Dr. Muszbek to travel and present a paper at the International Psycho-Oncology Conference in Banff, Canada.

Hungarian Hospice Foundation
Budapest, Hungary
Dr. Katalin Muszbek
$3,750
Funds to support continuing palliative care policy development in Hungary.

Hungarian Hospice Foundation
Budapest, Hungary
Dr. Katalin Muszbek
$10,000
Funds to support the palliative care resource training center activities.

Hungarian Hospice Foundation
Budapest, Hungary
Dr. Katalin Muszbek
$25,000
Funds to support a meeting of Hungarian Health Managers, Catalonia Health Managers, and international experts to integrate palliative care into the Hungarian national healthcare system.

Kazakhstan

State Organization Hospice
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Dr. Gulshara Gazizovna Urmurzina
$9,000 with a $9,000 match from the Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan
Funds to support the development of palliative care in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan

Dr. Madina Talman
$2,000 with a $2,000 match from the Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan
Funds to support the translation, publication, and dissemination of WHO Cancer Pain and Palliative Care into Kazak.

Lithuania

Panevezys Country Governor's Administration
Panevezys, Lithuania
Dr. Raimonda Ulianskiene
$7,500 with a $7,500 match from the Soros Foundation-Lithuania
Funds to support a regional model of palliative care promotion, education, and strategy.

Kaunas Silainiai Outpatient Clinic
Kaunas, Lithuania
Dr. Renata Puodziukiene
$2,500 with a $2,500 match from the Soros Foundation-Lithuania
Funds to establish a model palliative home-based care program.

Moldova

Soros Foundation-Moldova
Chisinau, Moldova
Angelina Ursa
Funds to support the translation of Standards on Palliative Care of HIV Infected and People Living with AIDS.

Nursing Association of Moldova
Elena Stempovscaia
Chisinau, Moldova
$1,825 with a $1,825 match from the Soros Foundation-Moldova
Funds to support palliative care education for nurses in Moldova.

State Medical and Pharmaceutical University "Nicolae Testemitsanu"
Chisinau, Moldova
Dr. Minodora Mazur
$2,825 with a $2,825 match from the Soros Foundation-Moldova
Funds to support the introduction of palliative care into the university curriculum.

The Central Territorial Medical Association
Chisinau, Moldova
Dr. Anadela Glaven
$3,075 with a $3,075 match from the Soros Foundation-Moldova
Funds to support a palliative care information center.

NGO Second Breath
Gerontological Center
Balti, Moldova
Dr. Irina Baicalov
$2250 with a $1,825 match from the Soros Foundation Moldova
Funds to support palliative care development in North Moldova.

Mongolia

National Medical University of Mongolia
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Davaasuren Odontuya, M.D., Ph.D.
$20,000
Funds to support the development of a resource training center in palliative care for Mongolia.

National Medical University of Mongolia
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Davaasuren Odontuya, M.D., Ph.D.
$3,750
Funds to support follow-up activities of the Mongolian team who participated in the Budapest Palliative Care Policy Development Workshop in October, 2003.

Poland

Polish Association for Palliative Care, Poznan Branch
Poznan, Poland
Dr. Jacek Luczak
$15,000
Funds to support the palliative care resource training center activities.

Slovakia

Rada pre poradenstvo v socialneg praci (Board for Advising in Social Work)
Bratislava, Slovakia
Alzbeta Padysakova
$3,180 with a $3,180 match from the Open Society Foundation
Funds to support a palliative care advocacy project to inform both the public and health policy makers about palliative care.

OZ Hospic Matky Bozej (Our Lady's Hospice)
Piestany, Slovakia
Patricia Porubcanova
$1,364 with a $1,364 match from the Open Society Foundation
Funds to support two projects: 1) the 2nd National Conference on Palliative Care in Slovakia in April 2004, and 2) a report evaluating the current situation of palliative care development in Slovakia.

Diocesen Charity Nitra
Nitra, Slovakia
Alena Rjabininova
$1,515 with a $1,515 match from the Open Society Institute
Funds to support a twinning project between hospice providers in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

South Africa

Medical Education for South African Blacks
James Scott
$175,000
Funds to help build MESAB's capacity to identify training programs in palliative care for health professionals and community workers; to provide financial support for such programs; to obtain additional funding for such programs from private sector and governmental sources; to collaborate with related organizations; and to serve as a catalyst for other projects.

Since 1985, MESAB has supported the training of over 5,000 healthcare professionals in South Africa. It now has an extensive network of physicians, dentists, nurses, and community healthcare workers and has developed innovative community healthcare initiatives. As part of its healthcare mission and especially because of the HIV/AIDS crisis in South Africa, MESAB needs to add palliative and hospice care and training to its program mix and these funds will enable MESAB to do so.

Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa
Peggy K. Harper
$70,000
Funds to allow the FHSSA to help hospices and palliative care programs increase capacity by providing support and resources to existing programs and to those initiating hospice and palliative care, by 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.

Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa
Peggy K. Harper
$50,000
FHSSA will regrant these funds to HPCA. HPCA Mentorship Program-Phase 2 will be jointed funded by OSI's South African Palliative Care Initiative and the Elton John Foundation in the UK. Phase 1 of the Mentorship Program involved building the capacity of 28 South African Hospices (8 as mentors and 20 as development sites). Phase 2 will develop regional mentor teams for each of the five HPCA Regional Associations thereby enhancing regional capacity and infrastructure.

Regional

EAPC-E Coordinating Center for Palliative Care in Central and Eastern Europe & the Former Soviet Union
Dr. Carl Johann Furst
Sylvia Sauter
Stockholm, Sweden
$5,000
Funds to support travel expenses for regional palliative care professionals to attend and present posters at the EAPC Congress in the Hague.

EAPC-E Coordinating Center for Palliative Care in Central and Eastern Europe & the Former Soviet Union Palliative Care Unit
Stockholm, Sweden
Dr. Carl Johann Furst
Sylvia Sauter
$38,500
Funds to support the development and activities of the EAPC-E Coordinating Center for Palliative Care in the region.

International Observatory on End-of-Life Care
Institute for Health Research
Lancaster University
David Clark, Ph.D.
$74,621
Funds to support the development of a pilot Internet website on hospice and palliative care in Central and Eastern Europe: www.eolc-observatory.net.

International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, Inc.
Houston, TX
Dr. Liliana De Lima
$10,000
Funds to enhance the capacity of this international professional association to provide scholarships for palliative care healthcare professionals in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union to receive training in Eastern Europe and to attend international palliative care conferences.

Palliative Care Development Institute
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dr. Urska Lunder
$19,000
Funds to support the palliative care resource education and training center in Slovenia.

Palliative Care Development Institute
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dr. Urska Lunder
$3,750
Funds to support the Slovenian committee to Advance Palliative Care Policy

Open Society Institute Seminar Series

Palliative Care Policy Development
Budapest, Hungary
October, 2003
$14,058

Kazakhstan Round Table
Palliative Care Development in Kazakhstan
Almaty, Kazakhstan
September 2003
Total budget: $8,000
$4,000 with a $4,000 match from the Soros Foundation Kazakhstan
Funds to support a two-day round table meeting with stakeholders in Almaty to discuss palliative care development.

Tajikistan Study Tour to Poland
December 2003
$7,500 with a $7,500 match from the Soros Foundation Tajikistan
Travel funds to Tajik health care professionals and managers to visit the Polish Palliative Care Resource Training Center in Poznan, Poland.

Uzbekistan Study Tour to Romania
December 2003
$13,000 with a $13,000 match from the Soros Foundation Uzbekistan
Funds to support the expenses of Uzbekistan health care professionals and managers to visit the Romanian Palliative Care Resource Training Center in Brasov, Romania.

Palliative Care Program
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Dr. David Weissman
$5,000
Funds to support the English to Russian translation of seven EPERC Fast Fact Sheets and five PowerPoint EPERC presentations.