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Global Organizations

• WHO: World Health Organization
  WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system.
• AACE: American Association for Cancer Education
  Promoting accurate, effective, and focused cancer education by those responsible for the education of health professionals, patients, families, caregivers, survivors and the public.
• Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control
  • Closing the Cancer Divide - The Global Equity Imperative of Expanding Access in Low and Middle-Income Countries, October 28, 2011, Boston
• HTH: Help the Hospices
  A charity organization for the development of hospice care in the United Kingdom and internationally.
  • Hospice Information Service
    Access information about UK hospice care and how to find a hospice along with information about international palliative care and overseas services.
• HRW: Human Rights Watch
  One of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights.
  • Special Report: The Global Fight for Pain Relief, Feb 18, 2011
  • Kenya: Needless Pain: Government Failure to Provide Palliative Care for Children in Kenya
  • India: Unbearable Pain: India’s Obligation to Ensure Palliative Care (Report, October 28, 2009)
    This 102-page report found that many major cancer hospitals in India do not provide patients with morphine, despite the fact that more than 70 percent of their patients are incurable and likely to require pain treatment and palliative care.
    • Download the Report(1.1 MB)
    • Watch the Video on YouTube
    • Watch the Photo Feature
    • Download the Photo Feature / Summary and Recommendations(1.8 MB)
• Ukraine: Uncontrolled Pain Ukraine's Obligation to Ensure Evidence-Based Palliative Care
  This 93-page report describes Ukrainian government policies that make it impossible for cancer patients living in rural areas to get essential pain medications.
• IAEA PACT: International Atomic Energy Agency Program of Action for Cancer Therapy
  Helping developing countries mobilizing new resources for fighting cancer.
• IAHPC: International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care
  An organization committed to the development of palliative care worldwide.
• ICPCN: International Children's Palliative Care Network
  The sole international network of organizations and individuals working with children’s palliative care services.
  • Member Organizations around the World
• INCB: International Narcotic Control Board
  The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) is the independent and quasi-judicial control organ monitoring the implementation of the United Nations drug control conventions.
  • Annual Reports
    • Special Report: Availability of Internationally Controlled Drugs: Ensuring Adequate Access for Medical and Scientific Purposes (1.5 MB)
    • Principle of Proportionality, 2007 Annual Report
      The adoption of this Convention is regarded as a milestone in the history of international drug control.
  • Single Convention, 1961
    The adoption of this Convention is regarded as a milestone in the history of international drug control.
• INCTR: International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research
  Helps building capacity for cancer treatment and research in countries with limited resources.
  • PAX: Palliative Access Program
    Assisting developing countries to initiate and sustain appropriate and effective palliative care programs in order to improve all cancer patients' quality of life.
    • INCTR Palliative Care Handbook
• IOELC: International Observatory on End of Life Care
  An initiative from Lancaster University, UK, exploring and supporting the worldwide growth of palliative care.
  • Country Profiles
  • Map of Levels of Palliative Care Development: a Global View (2.1 MB)
  • Publications
• IPOS: International Psycho-Oncology Society
  A multi-disciplinary organization focusing on psycho-oncology.
• JCI: Joint Commission International
  JCI focuses on improving the safety of patient care through the provision of accreditation and certification services as well as through advisory and educational services aimed at helping organizations implement practical and sustainable solutions.
• MASCC: Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer
  MASCC is dedicated to research and education in all aspects of supportive care for patients with cancer, regardless of the stage of their disease.
• OSF: Open Society Foundations
  With the international palliative care initiative.
• PPSG: Pain & Policy Studies Group
  Information on US and international pain policy issues with a focus on opioid legislation and availability.
  • Country Profiles
• UICC: Union for International Cancer Control
  The leading international non-governmental organization dedicated to the global control of cancer.
• World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, 8 Oct 2011
  A unified day of action to celebrate and support hospice and palliative care around the world.
• WPCA: Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance
  Promoting universal access to affordable quality palliative care through the support of regional and national hospice and palliative care organisations.

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