They are also scientists, health workers and leaders who enrich the social and economic fabric of both host and origin countries." (WHO)
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Women and newborns’ lives are at heightened risk with disrupted maternal and essential care as barriers to access increase. Notably, refugees are not only recipients of care.
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"As protracted displacement rises, many fleeing conflict and disasters are spending over a decade awaiting legal recognition. Among them are over 47 million children, facing disrupted access to health, education, and protection.
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Today on World Refugee Day, we stand in Solidarity with Refugees.
#PalliativeCare
#RefugeeDay
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Course incorporates the
- ICPCN Elearning course on palliative care for children in humanitarian settings
- 6 weekly online teaching sessions with children’s palliative care experts
- Weekly sessions on Mondays from 📅 June 30-Aug 4, 2025, ⏰ 4-5:15pm East Africa Time
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This week, along with the global palliative care community, remember Dr Anne Merriman along with her extensive career in reducing suffering of patients and families through palliative care.
#rememberingwell
#palliativecare
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We are online now for our Quarterly Webinar at PallCHASE!
Using mPallCare to Strengthen Palliative Care in Humanitarian Contexts: A Global Dialogue
May 7, 2025
Session #1: 3pm London on May 7th, 2025
Zoom Registration Links -->
First Session: twoworldscancer.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Important article - please read!
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We must keep advocating and seeing the vision for palliative care in all settings, for all people.
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Join us! Using mPallCare to Strengthen Palliative Care in Humanitarian Contexts:
A Global Dialogue
#1: 3pm London May 7 twoworldscancer.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#2: 8am London May 8 twoworldscancer.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Join us on May 7th and 8th for our quarterly Global Webinar. Save the date!
20.03.2025 13:54 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Your work deserves the spotlight! Submit your poster abstract for the #CAPCSeminar25 by March 28. Topic areas include ensuring care quality in the context of limited resources, team well-being, advancing equitable care, and more. www.capc.org/seminar/post... #hapc #hpm #CAPCSeminar25
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📍 Sudan | The ongoing conflict has made healthcare nearly impossible for millions.
Earlier this year, we deployed a mobile surgical team to Atbara Teaching Hospital, which treated 150 war-wounded patients.
Mousa Al Wakil, a patient at the hospital, shares his experience. 👇🏽
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“Now, we can feel the panic in the air, the sound of ambulance sirens is a constant, and we can see the pain and devastation in the faces of those we are helping. People are scared and are again forced to think only of surviving the next hours.”
📍 Gaza | Within hours of the violence restarting, staff at the Field Hospital in Rafah received a high number of patients in a short time.
For the last eight weeks, our medical staff has been able to focus on providing care amid relative calm. But that calm was shattered 👇🏼
20.03.2025 10:38 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Eighty percent of WHO-supported facilities in Afghanistan risk shutdown by June
WHO in Afghanistan is deeply concerned that funding shortages could force the closure of 80% of WHO-supported essential health care services.
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YouTube video by World Health Organization (WHO)
Impact of the US funding cuts on global health programmes around the world
The US Administration has been extremely generous over many years, & it is within its rights to decide what it supports, and to what extent.
But the abrupt cuts in funding from the US are putting at risk decades of progress in various health programmes across the world.
youtube.com/shorts/Atcjv...
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Secretary General - Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders
Int'l President of Medecins Sans Frontieres. Surgeon. Refuse to accept inhumanity as the default. My reflections on our humanitarian work in migration, epidemics & conflict zones.
We are a provincial organization established and funded by the BC Ministry of Health to accelerate the spread of best practices and innovations in palliative care.
In the UK and around the world, we make sure children keep safe, healthy and learning.
Find out more here: https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/
Oxfam is a world-wide development organization that mobilizes the power of people against poverty. #TheFutureisEqual
When women lead. In crises. In their communities. We can change the world. Join us.
https://www.careinternational.org.uk/
We believe that by working together with children, communities, supporters and partners, the lives of the world’s most vulnerable children can be transformed.
Fighting for human rights across UK & the world 🌍 follow for activism & news. Amnesty UK (Charitable Trust & Section).
http://amnesty.org.uk/
Wir sind die größte unabhängige Kinderrechtsorganisation der Welt🌍. In rund 120 Ländern für Kinder & Familien im Einsatz 🩺📚🚨.
Folgt uns auf Threads @savethechildren_de.
Save the Children is an international humanitarian organization that has been protecting children around the world for more than 100 years. ❤️
savethechildren.org
Somos la mayor ONG dedicada a la protección de la infancia. Llevamos más de 100 años defendiendo los derechos de niños, niñas y adolescentes de todo el mundo.
We work to make sure children can live safe and happy lives, even in some of the hardest places in the world to be a child.
For children and equality for girls.
Find out more https://linktr.ee/Plan_UK
Plan International strives for a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We won’t stop until we are all equal.
We work in Brussels to ensure that European Union policies have a positive impact on children’s rights, across Europe and internationally 🇪🇺 🌍
https://www.savethechildren.net/what-we-do/advocacy/save-children-europe
The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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Save the Children's official global voice. We work to ensure children across the world survive, learn and are protected.
Find out more about the work we do for children: https://www.savethechildren.net/
We represent more than 24,000 paediatricians in the UK and internationally, working to ensure that children everywhere receive the best care.
Visit our website: www.rcpch.ac.uk
PPCC is a nonprofit coalition that provides education and resources to families and medical professionals caring for children with life limiting illness
Bluesky home of PediPal, a podcast about pediatric palliative care, hosted by peds palliative docs Sarah and Dan, sharing the insights, opinions, narratives, commentaries, and invectives of the #pedpc community.
On hiatus since 9/2024, returning in 2025...
