Palliative Care
What is Palliative Care and why does it matter now?
The advent of antiretroviral therapy has brought greatly reduced morbidity and mortality among people living with HIV disease. Unfortunately, it has also meant that we often focus on the clinical aspects of therapy and viral suppression to the exclusion of the enduring principles of palliative care: attention to the physical, emotional and spiritual distress of those patients and families affected by life-threatening disease.
Key Palliative Care resources
- HATIP 17th August 2007: Towards a comprehensive package of preventive and palliative care
- Palliative care and HIV/AIDS Factsheet
In Spanish
In French - Symptoms and illnesses
- HCV
- TB
- Drugs used by people with HIV
- Side-effects
- Alternative and complementary therapies
- Living with HIV
- Telling a child about HIV
- The care of children affected by HIV&AIDS
- Services worldwide
- Antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings
- Medical services
- African families in the UK
- Psychosocial issues for people with haemophilia and HIV
- Benefits for people with HIV in the UK
- Mental health & quality of life
- Putting your affairs in order
- Treating HIV&AIDS: A training toolkit
- Paediatric Palliative Care Manual for Home-Based Carers
Further reading
Pain and palliative care in the developing world and marginalised populations - a global challenge
M R Rajagopal, David Mazza, Arthur Lipmnan (eds.) The Haworth Medical Press 2003. ISBN 0 78901556 0
Palliative care in the developing world: principles and practice
The International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care 2004. Paperback. ISBN 0 97585250 7. Order online from http://www.hospicecare.com/
Transitions in end of life care - hospice and related developments in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
David Clark, Michael Wright with Jacek Luczak and in association with Carl Johan Furst adn Sylvia Sauter, Open University Press 2003. ISBN 0 335 21286 7
Free electronic newsletters
Hospice & Palliative Care News
Worldwine Hospice and Palliative Care Online, to subscribe please contact anne@hospiceinformation.info
The Palliative Care in Central and Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union Countries Newsletter
Palliative Care news
Read the latest palliative care news...
- Portable lactate test is reliable and accurate
- Fluconazole shown to be more effective against cryptococcal meningitis at higher dose
- Starting HIV treatment soon after a patient is diagnosed with cryptococcal meningitis decreases risk of death
- Single high dose fluconazole equivalent to 14 day treatment for oropharyngeal candidiasis
- High early mortality after starting antiretroviral treatment in Africa
- Cidofovir of no benefit for HIV-related PML
- Low CD4 cell count, but not HIV treatment, increases risk of hardening of the arteries
- Long-term HIV treatment cuts risk of hardening of coronary artery
- Need for vigilance: two cases of abacavir allergy despite pre-treatment screening all-clear
- Differing causes of lung infections in HIV-positive patients: implications for diagnosis and treatment
Palliative Care articles from NAM's newsletters
HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice
- Latest:
HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice #93
Palliative care: pain and symptom control being ignored in South Africa due to lack of training, legal barriers - HIV & AIDS Treatment in Pratice #16
Palliative care for people with HIV and AIDS - HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice #18
Palliative care and home-based care for HIV - HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice #19
Palliative care and symptom management: Palliation vs Diagnosis and Cure - HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice #29
New report on palliative care: recommendations and resources - HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice #35
Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) in the developing world - HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice #67
Side-effects in resource-limited settings - HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice #81 part I
Neuro AIDS - HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice #81 part II
HIV & dementia - HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice #89
Towards a comprehensive package of preventive and palliative care
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AIDS Treatment Update
- AIDS Treatment Update 135
HIV and cancer - AIDS Treatment Update 152
Lipodystrophy - AIDS Treatment Update 155
HIV & quality of life - AIDS Treatment Update 158
Better practice - AIDS Treatment Update 162
Life-expectancy - AIDS Treatment Update 165
Staying well with HIV
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HIV Weekly
- 12th September 2007
Ilness - 15th August
HIV & cancer - 5th June 2007
TB - 29th May 2007
Lung cancer - 22nd May 2007
Mental health - 15th May 2007
Oral and throat cancer - 9th May 2007
TB - 1st May 2007
Longer, healthier life
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