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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

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

The State of Palliative Care and HIV/AIDS in Latin America
July 2008
This OSI fact sheet discusses the role of palliative care in HIV/AIDS treatment in Latin America.  more

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

National Palliative Care Plan in Development in Romania
April 2008
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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