World media roundup – 24 July 2014

Euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke suspended by medical board

The Guardian

The Medical Board of Australia has suspended a physician nicknamed ‘Doctor Death’ following reports that alleged he counselled a Perth man, who was not terminally ill, to take his own life.

The WHO joins the battle for drug decriminalisation

Richard Branson Blog

In its latest report on HIV/AIDS, to be launched at this week’s International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, the WHO experts recommend decriminalisation of drug use as an essential strategy to effectively tackle HIV/AIDS.

Home-testing acceptable in ‘treat everyone’ trial: treatment takes longer to accept

aidsmap

The pilot phase of a trial in South Africa that aims to treat everyone living with HIV in a community and compare the effect of this with standard treatment has found that the trial intervention is acceptable to communities.

Criminalisation of homosexual behaviour in Pacific countries undermining HIV effort, advocates say

ABC News

This week’s International Aids Conference in Melbourne has heard that laws which criminalise homosexual sex are undermining efforts to prevent and treat HIV.

Way to go: when will you die, how, and with what support?

The Conversation

Article by Katherine Sleeman, Clinical Lecturer in Palliative Medicine at King’s College London, on palliative care and the importance of providing palliative care in parallel with, rather than in series with, other medical care.

Hospice patients should have access to physical therapy to improve function

GeriPal

Blog about the author’s experience of problems in accessing physical therapy for hospice patients.

Thika Level 5 Hospital management backs palliative care

ehospice Kenya

Hospital managements are slowly accepting the need for palliative care within their service delivery and Thika Level 5 Hospital palliative care team has been promised support from the medical superintendent.

First ever training in children’s palliative care takes place in Namibia

ehospice International children’s edition

For the first time in Namibia a large multi-professional group of doctors, nurses and social workers received 5 days of training in an ICPCN course introducing them to children’s palliative care.

Escalating rates of malnutrition amongst children in South Sudan

ehospice International children’s edition

A devastating report from Doctors Without Borders alerts the world to the escalating rates of malnutrition causing deaths among children in South Sudan.