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‰ Promoting paediatric palliative care in Pakistan.
‰ Publishing a palliative care handbook describing the
management of a wide variety of symptoms in English,
Portuguese, French and Turkish.
‰ Development of the "Life at Your Doorstep" home care
programme offering extensive, 24/7 support for patients
and families struggling with advanced and terminal
illness in the cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad.
‰ Palliative care workshops and training courses for
Francophone sub-Saharan Africa organized by AMCC in
partnership with AFSO were held in Uganda and Ivory
Coast.
‰ Establishment of palliative care centres of reference and
training in sub-Saharan Francophone Africa (Mali,
Cameroon, Ivory Coast).
‰ Canadian branch provides training in India for St Mary
Hospital in palliative care and fosters a collaborative
approach between palliative care and health care in
Nepal.
Pathology
‰ Central pathology review of Burkitt Lymphoma in
institutions participating in the treatment protocol for
this disease in Africa.
‰ Training and education workshops for pathologists and
clinicians.
‰ Training and education workshops for technicians and
pathologists in techniques to improve diagnostic
capabilities.
‰ Use of iPath - an internet telepathology programme -
for consultation, training and education.
‰ Provision of training and education of
haematopathologists in Francophone African countries
(Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sénégal).
‰ "What can we learn from Africa" pathology workshop
held in Mombasa for pathologists from Africa to improve
the ability of African haematopathologists to diagnose
haematopathologocal neoplasms using the World Health
Organization Classification.
‰ Setting up of a project to characterize
lymphoproliferative disorders in adults in Senegal in
partnership with local universities.
‰ Programme to improve pathologic and haematologic
diagnostics established in Ethiopia using on-site and online training.
Paediatric oncology
‰ Establishment of centres of reference for the treatment of
retinoblastoma - Mali and Democratic Republic of Congo.
‰ Mentoring of Indian paediatric oncologists in the
development of a common treatment protocol for Wilms
Tumour.
‰ Conducting workshops and symposia on topics of
relevance in developing countries.
‰ Promotion of the establishment of paediatric oncology
societies - Philippines and Pakistan.
‰ Development of a centre of excellence in paediatric
oncology at the Santa Marcelina Hospital/TUCCA in São
Paulo, Brazil.
‰ Conducting a campaign for the early diagnosis of
retinoblastoma including, but not limited to, the
translation of a film showing a child with early
retinoblastoma into 12 languages and distributing the
film around the world (Brazil); development and wide
dissemination and display of posters (Mexico and Brazil);
and establishment of a retinoblastoma day (Turkey
and Brazil).
‰ Ophthalmology nurses from the Democratic Republic of
Congo trained in France to fit prosthetic eyes.
Psychosocial support
‰ Development of an educational programme relating to
the psychosocial needs of cancer patients in conjunction
with the Brazilian Society of Paediatric Oncology.
World Health Organization
‰ Organized the 2009 update of the WHO Essential
Medicines List for Cancer.
‰ Participated in guideline updating and development
(cervical cancer, Kaposi sarcoma and referral guidelines
for breast and cervical cancer).
‰ Consultation with Dr Jean Marie Dangou, Head of AFRO
(African Regional Office of WHO) on non-AIDS defining
malignancies in HIV positive individuals.
‰ INCTR organized an advisory meeting for WHO AFRO
relating to AIDS-related but non-AIDS defining cancers
in Africa. A report was provided to AFRO.
‰ Advising EMRO on a planned high-level meeting in the
region late in 2014.