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If our work has informed or inspired you—through Pallinews, our website, webinars, or free tools like Pallipedia—it reflects IAHPC’s ongoing work to improve quality of life for patients and caregivers around the world.

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December 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
4 objectives: Details of IAHPC's advocacy goals to increase palliative care access for all those in need.

See more in Katherine Pettus's monthly Pallinews column 👉🏻 bit.ly/4iCpJvv

#Pallinews #PalliativeCare #HealthCare #Advocacy #Accessibility #HealthSystem
December 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The case for not using "crisis" to describe the lack of palliative care; how we talk about palliative care may actually hinder solutions for the huge number of people in need.

In IAHPC's Pallinews 👉🏻 bit.ly/48kjhpl

#Pallinews #PalliativeCare #Healthcare #Crisis #Communication #LanguageMatters
December 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#Pallinews this week: The case for not using "crisis", & this month's advocacy news

Is "crisis" the right word?
Monthly advocacy column by Katherine I. Pettus

👉🏻 bit.ly/4avIQoN

#PalliativeCare #AccessToCare #LanguageMatters #PalliativeCareAdvocacy
December 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Help us expand palliative care education and advocacy for health professionals around the world.

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December 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
To celebrate Giving Tuesday, support IAHPC’s work to relieve serious health-related suffering through palliative care education, advocacy, research, and global collaboration.

No amount is too small, donate now 👉🏻 bit.ly/3Kk2zgI

#PalliativeCare #GivingTuesday #IAHPC
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Swiping right on strengthening palliative care practices through community-based and digital innovations: what a Papua New Guinea nurse brought home from the #OPCC.

In the latest #Pallinews 👉🏻 bit.ly/4r8RlvU

#palliativecare #hospice #healthcare
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Enriching research practices: The search for "relative" truth along with "absolute" truth enriches understanding in ways that neither, alone, can do. Report on a palliative care panel discussion.
In this week's #Pallinews 👉🏻 bit.ly/3K6goPG

#palliativecare #hospice #healthcare #knowledge #experience
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Join us on Dec 9 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) for the webinar “Achieving the Promise: Universal Access to Palliative Care.” We’ll present essential and expanded palliative care packages with PAHO. The event will be in English and Spanish with interpretation.

Register now 👉 bit.ly/4prMYdA
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
#Pallinews this week: On new ways of knowing & doing
Enrich research practices by seeking both "absolute" and "relative" truths. Report on a panel discussion & Swiping right on digital aids: Papua New Guinea nurse brings innovations home from the OPCC.

👉🏻 bit.ly/4oLh249
November 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Happening tomorrow – IAHPC, INCB & WHO webinar: Safe and Adequate Access to Essential Palliative Care Medicines

📅 Tune in on November 13 at 3 PM UTC
👉 Learn more: bit.ly/489Mi70
📝 Register here: bit.ly/4nKs7RJ

#IAHPC #PalliativeCare #EssentialMedicines #AccessToMedicines #HealthPolicy
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
IAHPC advocacy takes on the world: this month's report by @kpettus⁠ in #Pallinews

See more 👉🏻 bit.ly/4p2BM7o

#palliativecare #healthcare #hospice #advocacy #webinar #medicines
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
We are announcing the launch of Pallimedicines, a new app that offers quick and easy access to consensus-based recommendations on essential palliative care medicines — available anytime, anywhere.

See more 👉 bit.ly/47TqgUV

#IAHPC #PalliativeCare #EssentialMedicines
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
📅 Tune in on November 13 at 3 PM UTC

Join IAHPC’s Expert Panel Discussion on Balanced National Policies to Improve Safe and Adequate Access to Essential Palliative Care Medicines.
👉 Learn more: bit.ly/47uCy79
📝 Register here: bit.ly/4nKs7RJ

#IAHPC #PalliativeCare #EssentialMedicines #HealthPolicy
November 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
#Pallinews this week: IAHPC Advocacy Takes On The World

Monthly advocacy report by Katherine Pettus & IAHPC Scholar reports from conferences in Australia, Canada & Uganda.

👉🏻 bit.ly/4p02fT2

#PalliativeCare #PalliativeCareAdvocacy
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
🎥 Recording available!

If you missed the International Day of Care and Support webinar co-hosted by #IAHPC and #WHO on caregiver support, or would like to revisit the marvelous presentations, the full recording is now available.

👉🏻 Watch it here: bit.ly/4qHnIBB
November 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
New Canadian centre of equity shares decades of expertise to help existing palliative care programs—or ones in development—serve marginalized people.

Read more in IAHPC's Pallinews 👉🏻 bit.ly/4qxlvZF

#palliativecare #healthcare
October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Happening tomorrow!

@iahpc.org & @who.int invite you to join “Palliative Care for Persons with Dementia: WHO Tools for Caregivers.” to mark the 2025 International Day of Care and Support.

🗓 Oct 30, 2025 | ⏰ 1PM GMT (2pm CET, 4pm EAT, 8pm ICT, 9am EDT, 8am CDT)

Register 👉 bit.ly/3Jc5ffN
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Win $500 and share your vision of #PalliativeCare — only 3 days left to enter the IAHPC #PhotoContest!

Read more 👉🏻 bit.ly/4ntsose
October 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
IAHPC Leadership grants to spur uptake of Palliative Care Essentials in Chile, El Salvador, Ghana, Lebanon, Macedonia, Nepal, and the Philippines.⁠

⁠Read more 👉️ bit.ly/4o3QR8i
See lists of #PalliativeCareEssentials 👉️ bit.ly/4qlSrUR

#palliativecare #healthcare #NAPCare
October 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
#Pallinews this week: Reaching Out to Make Change Widely: National LEAD projects & new Centre for Equity

👉🏻 bit.ly/4nk734f

#PalliativeCare #GlobalHealth #LEADProgram #PalliativeEducation #PCPackages #PCAdvocacy #EndOfLifeEquity
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A comprehensive overview of psychedelic substances and their applications in palliative care⁠. A #Pallinews book review.⁠

See more 👉️ bit.ly/4q46huL

@IAHPC #palliativecare #psychedelic #healthcare #book-review #medication
October 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
UN draft declaration on NCDs highlights palliative care 4 times! More in #Pallinews monthly advocacy report by @kpettus.⁠

See more 👉🏻 bit.ly/4nEsApe

@IAHPC @WHO #palliativecare #hospice #healthcare #UN #medication #conference
October 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Bedside aid for MDs globally: the new, online tool Pallimedicines gives practitioners swift access to precise information on essential medicines.⁠

bit.ly/42zriDz

@IAHPC #Pallinews #palliativecare #hospice #healthcare #advocacy #resources
October 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Celebrate World Hospice and #PalliativeCare Day 2025 by reading the newly published article on Essential and Expanded Palliative Care Packages for Adults and Children in The Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 

See more 👉️ bit.ly/4n3Kjpd

#WHPCD #PainRelief #EssentialPackages
October 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM