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WHO: World Health Organization

• WHO Home Page
• WHO Definition of Palliative Care
• WHO Pain Ladder
• Africa Project on Palliative Care
  • A Community Health Approach to Palliative Care for HIV/AIDS and Cancer Patients in Sub-Saharan Africa (Download PDF 396 KB)
• Assuring Availability of Opioid Analgesics (PDF 1.65 MB)
• Cancer Information
• Cancer Control: Knowledge Into Action, WHO guide for effective programmes
  • Palliative Care: How to implement effective palliative care for cancer, with a particular focus on community-based care (Download PDF 4.21 MB)
• Country Data
• Essential Medicines
  • IAHPC: Essential Medicines for Palliative Care
• HIV / AIDS Information
  • IMAI Symptom Management Interim Guidelines (914 KB)
• Noncommunicable diseases country profiles 2011
  The noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) situation in 193 countries
• International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) (2.2 MB)
  Report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) for 2010
• WHO Euro: Better Palliative Care for Older People
• WHO Euro: Palliative Care. The Solid Facts
• Search WHO for Palliative Care

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