Senior Advocacy & Partnership Director @IAPHC Improving availability of internationally controlled essential medicines #palliativecare etc. tweets my own.
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Katherine Pettus retweeted
An assisted death for those who feel a burden, are victims of coercive control or through inadequate palliative care choose death because there’s nothing else. That’s not autonomy, dignity, nor compassion – it’s tragedy, it’s inequality, it’s abdication of responsibility.
Katherine Pettus retweeted
Today I will once again vote against the Assisted Dying Bill.
Not through a lack of compassion, but because no one who is elderly, disabled, terminally ill or frightened should ever feel they are a burden.
We need dignity, support and properly funded palliative care not a law that puts vulnerable people at risk.
Katherine Pettus retweeted
"My days may be numbered, but that doesn't mean that I want this chamber to rush through bad law!"
Terminally ill @AshleyDalton_MP makes it clear that there are no excuses for passing the assisted suicide Bill, which is known to be full of flaws.
Katherine Pettus retweeted
Very powerful speech from @AshleyDalton_MP, who has stage 4 cancer and opposes the assisted dying bill.
"I have been terrorised with tales of people vomiting up their own faeces...it is nothing short of irresponsible to scaremonger people like me into believing our deaths will be horrific when with good access to palliative care most deaths are gentle."
"“the most effective way to address suffering at the end of life is through greater access to excellent palliative and end-of-life care.” catholicworldreport.com/2026…
We cannot choose the time or method of our deaths, but we can choose how we die by changing how we live. tinyurl.com/mr3ud4rk
Katherine Pettus retweeted
Palliative care in traditional practices
Celebrating World Indigenous Peoples Day 2026
📅 Thursday, August 13
⏰️ 1pm UTC, 2pm BST, 3pm CET, 9am EDT, 3pm CAT
Register 👉🏻 l.iahpc.org/yc7?x
#PalliativeCare #TraditionalPractices #WorldIndigenousPeoplesDay2026
“This confuses two different problems: preventing illegal drug trafficking and sale is a law enforcement responsibility, while ensuring access to pain relief is part of the right to health.” theconversation.com/pain-and…
Katherine Pettus retweeted
🔊 Diploma de Especialización en Atención Enfermera en #CuidadosPaliativos organizado por el Institut @UB_IL3 en colaboración con @ICO_oncologia
🔷 Semipresencial
🗓️ Octubre 2026
✅ 10% de descuento para soci@s de @AECPAL_
➕ Información 👉 tinyurl.com/w6nv86x4
Katherine Pettus retweeted
Euthanasie : «C'est un reniement civilisationnel. La peine de mort a été abolie. L'incitation au suicide est pénalement punie. Et là, on a cette rupture civilisationnelle qui fait que la société s'infligerait le devoir de tuer», déplore @olivierpaccaud dans Points de Vue.
Congratulations @mariangelasimao on your appointment as UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health. We had the pleasure of working with you as @WHO ADG on improving access to #palliativecare medicines worldwide and we wish you every success in your new mandate #HealthJustice
Katherine Pettus retweeted
📙 (1/4) Nos hace mucha ilusión compartir que @penguinlibros acaba de lanzar 'Acompañar es cuidar. Sostener en la enfermedad, llorar la pérdida y estar en los momentos difíciles', escrito por @elillemartinez, presidenta de #SECPAL (+)
➕ Información 👉 tinyurl.com/3jr86928
Katherine Pettus retweeted
On Yom HaShoah, I had the honor of moderating an event at UCLA that touched the very core of who I am and where I come from.
I am the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. A man who was branded in Birkenau at 15, who lost nearly everything, and who chose to live in order to bear witness. This day lives in me every year.
At UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, we confronted one of medicine's darkest chapters: how physicians became instruments of genocide, drawing on the landmark findings of The Lancet's Commission on Medicine, Nazism and the Holocaust. And we asked what that history demands of us now. The answer is moral courage.
Link to full story: newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ho…
#YomHaShoah #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverForget #NeverAgain #MedicalEthics #GlobalHealth #UCLA #Medicine #BearWitness
Katherine Pettus retweeted
The Pope and the Grand Ayatollah singing together in St Peter’s Square about love and light against Trump’s hate and darkness. Remarkable.
Katherine Pettus retweeted
“What matters for you is what matters for me” — by Bruce Feldstein, MD
This is a fragment from an interactive discussion in the Faith in Palliative Care webinar.
View full webinar 👉🏻 l.iahpc.org/aqv?x
Katherine Pettus retweeted
🇺🇳💉 𝗙𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗛 — Sœur Agnès, médecin des Petites sœurs des pauvres, a dénoncé devant le rapporteur spécial de l’ONU sur la liberté de religion la proposition française visant à instaurer un DROIT À L’AIDE À MOURIR, la qualifiant de violation de la liberté de conscience et des convictions religieuses.