Putting Asia’s HIV response back on track
Chapter 8, Prison and Health, published
Version 1.1
Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Building laboratory testing capacity
An analysis from the perspective of the health sector in Latin America and the Caribbean
Washington, D.C., 2017
Results and Lessons Learned from CapacityPlus 2009-2015
The second edition of the WHPCA Global Atlas of Palliative Care was launched during World Hospice & Palliative Care Day 10 October. The Atlas is an update of the original WHPCA/WHO Global Atlas of Palliative care at the end of life published in 2014. It is full of useful facts and figures to support... palliative care advocacy and development. In this edition we have switched from using the WHO methodology for need for palliative care to the evolving Lancet Commission on Palliative Care and Pain Relief methodology. As a result the number of people needing palliative care has gone from 40 million per year to almost 57 million and more accurately reflects the need for palliative care globally models of palliative care worldwide? What resources are devoted to palliative care? What is the way forward?
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