Delighted to open the #INCBLearning training on international drug control for officials of Algeria, Benin, Chad, Comoros, Cote d’Ivoire, DRC, Madagascar, Mauritania, Morocco, Rwanda & Tunisia. #INCB is committed to supporting Member States to achieve full treaty compliance.

Today Polish people around the world celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Częstochowa (in Polish Najświętszej Maryi Panny Częstochowskiej). The image of Our Lady of Częstochowa depicts Mary holding the Christ Child, believed to be painted by St. Luke the Evangelist, enshrined at

Rabbis Emerge as Growing Voice of Criticism of Israel’s Tactics in Gaza https://t.co/TfE9bYgiKN via @NYTimes

“Our ability to thrive, both as individuals and as nations, depends on our ability to connect with others.” Community based palliative care is a key institutional connector! Loneliness, Social Isolation Linked to 871,000 Annual Deaths, WHO Finds

Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps, it creates a system of detention that eschews due process and disappears citizens into black holes. Watch Eunice Wong's reading of my column, "American Concentration Camps:" https://t.co/izu2ZAXVOr

Bankrupt morals

Advocacy Report from the World Health Assembly! By: Katherine Pettus @kpettus @iahpc Read More on: https://t.co/TOMWyuoiPq

Controlled medicines such as pain relievers and sedatives are essential for managing and treating numerous health conditions. Yet, millions of people in need can’t access them. Guideline to support urgent, safe & rational access to life-improving controlled medicines ⬇️

Very important International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (@IAHPC) sponsored side event at the World Health Assembly next week! Please send to your national delegations or permanent missions in Geneva and encourage them to attend!

Our new pope Leo called it!! Checkmate.

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Más de 90 personas escucharon hoy a @kpettus en el ATLANTES LECTURE. En su conferencia titulada “Desde la asistencia diaria a la política global”, la ponente expuso el papel de los profesionales en el desarrollo de los cuidados paliativos.

At the end of his life, Pope Francis made one last symbolic gesture: he emptied his personal bank account to donate 200,000 euros to the prisoners he had long championed.

Advocacy chalked up a titanic win with the inclusion of the words “palliative care” in the historic Pandemic Agreement just approved by WHO member states. watch for more analysis of the treaty in the week to come. @IAHPC @palliumindia @whpca @G2H2_Geneva https://t.co/nfczCMv2Hb

A trend to keep an eye on as advocates seek to expand global #palliativecare availability. Patients and families are the intended beneficiaries, not corporate shareholders. https://t.co/H2Q3GUA1ce... financialization-and-palliative-care/

It's today 1pm CET!! Join us virtually at CND for this hybrid side event where @IAHPCs Tania Pastrana will present on Serious Health Related Suffering and the need for #palliativecare medicines for children. https://t.co/7ZUSauZgzA

It’s tomorrow! Join virtually if you are not in Vienna through the QR code. @APCAssociation @PCAUganda @ghanaingeneva #SouthAfrica #Belgium @GI_TOC @RomeConsensus @INCB_President

"We are the darkest page of history" Afghan women sing in protest. This #IWD is another day of erasure for us Afghan women. Under 126 Taliban edicts, our faces are banned, our voices silenced, our dignity stolen. This is gender apartheid. Do not look away.

Grateful to be interviewed for this deep dive by the BBC's @NickTriggle into our threadbare NHS palliative care services. 4 in 10 hospitals don't even have a 7-day palliative care service. This is a travesty, @wesstreeting. Surely dying people deserve better than that? (1/2)

Christi Belcourt, contemporary Métis visual artist known for her paintings which depict patterns and symbols from nature inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwork art #womensart