Increase access to pain relief: stop unnecessary suffering worldwide
Global Access to Pain Relief Initiative (GAPRI)
GAPRI is a joint programme, led by UICC and the American Cancer Society (ACS), to make effective pain control measures universally available to cancer patients in pain by 2020, in line with Target 8 of the World Cancer Declaration. GAPRI recently published new data showing regional disparities in the number of deaths from HIV or cancer occuring without pain treatment. A summary of the data is available for download below. For country specific data please visit: http://www.treatthepain.com/worldwide-picture-untreated-pain
"Life Before Death"
LIFE Before Death is a multi-award winning documentary series that takes the viewer to 11 countries as they follow the remarkable health professionals battling the sweeping epidemic of pain that threatens to condemn one in every ten people to an agonising and shameful death.
Through the eyes of patients and their families you will discover the inherent humanity that empowers the best of us to care for those beyond cure. This is an intimate, hopeful and life-affirming story of living well and dying better, advocacting for making the most of every moment in our life before death.
The feature length film will have its global premiere on 4 February 2012 to tie in with World Cancer Day, and UICC members and the public are hosting their own screenings around the day. Please visit: http://www.worldcancerday.org/events-map to find out where your nearest screening is taking place.
"Morphine Manifesto"
On the Occasion of World Cancer Day 2012, a group of organisations including Pallium India, the International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care (IAHPC), and the Pain & Policy Studies Group, Univ of Wisconsin / WHO Collaborating Center for Pain Policy and Palliative Care (PPSG), have developed "The Morphine Manifesto A call for affordable access to immediate release oral morphine". Organisations all over the world have been encouraged to sign up the Manifesto:
• Morphine Manifesto (pdf):http://palliumindia.org/manifesto/pdf/themorphinemanifesto-text.pdf
• Press release (pdf):http://palliumindia.org/manifesto/pdf/themorphinemanifesto-press.pdf
