{"id":447,"date":"2011-11-08T12:04:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T12:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/?p=447"},"modified":"2011-11-22T11:40:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T11:40:35","slug":"tearfund-to-launch-palliative-care-services-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2011\/11\/08\/tearfund-to-launch-palliative-care-services-in-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tearfund to launch palliative care services in Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The relief and development agency Tearfund is to launch a palliative care initiative in Manicaland, Zimbabwe. The project, funded by the Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, will focus on training palliative care professionals in the region, improving access to pain-relieving drugs and developing referral systems.<\/p>\n<p>The population of Manicaland, which is located in the West of the country, has a high prevalence of HIV\/AIDS and over 9000 deaths from cancer a year, only 1% of whom receive morphine.<\/p>\n<p>Tearfund was awarded the grant after a <a href=\"http:\/\/tilz.tearfund.org\/webdocs\/Tilz\/HIV\/Palliative%20care%20case%20study%20-%20final.pdf\">pilot project<\/a> in Tanzania was deemed successful.<\/p>\n<p>The news is sure to be welcomed by advocates of palliative care provision in lower-income countries.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The relief and development agency Tearfund is to launch a palliative care initiative in Manicaland, Zimbabwe. The project, funded by the Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, will focus on training palliative care professionals in the region, improving access to pain-relieving drugs and developing referral systems. The population of Manicaland, which is located in the West [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2011\/11\/08\/tearfund-to-launch-palliative-care-services-in-zimbabwe\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1141,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}