Palliative care at AIDS 2010 – the XVIII International AIDS Conference, Vienna [Новость добавлена - 31.08.2010]

Liz Gwyther, trustee of the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance and chief executive of the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa delivered a plenary on care and support at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna on 23 July 2010. The conference had more than 20,000 delegates from all over the world and it was an important opportunity to raise awareness amongst policy makers, HIV advocates, funders, people living with HIV and health professionals about the importance of care and support, including palliative care, in the response to the pandemic.   View Liz Gwyther's plenary on care and support online on the AIDS 2010 website For links to the PowerPoint presentation and a transcript of the plenary visit www.thewpca.org/latest-news/aids-conference-2010 Bongai Mundeta (VSO-RAISA), Shannon Hayes (Huairou Commission), Diederik Lohman (Human Rights Watch) and Richard Harding (King's College London) co-authored the plenary.

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