The International Palliative Care Initiative.

ABSTRACT

This journal series describes the Open Society Foundation's International Palliative Care Initiative (IPCI) and the work of its national, regional, and international foundations and grantees to advance and develop palliative care globally. It provides examples of funding initiatives of IPCI honoring both grass roots and elite strategies of IPCI to integrate palliative care into national and international health policy based on a human rights approach.