Publications by authors named "Sara Pardy"
Context: Between 1998 and 2021, the Open Society Foundations (OSF) network invested around US$50 million in supporting the emerging field of palliative care worldwide, funding different approaches and interventions to advance its objective of putting palliative care on the global public health agenda.
Objective: To describe six approaches that were instrumental to the successes of Open Society Foundations' support in building the global field of palliative care. A robust discussion of lessons learnt is unfortunately not possible because Open Society Foundations did not commission a rigorous evaluation of the impacts of its investments.
Context: In the early 2000s, palliative care was largely unknown in the Eurasian region. For a period of twenty years starting around 2002, Open Society Foundations (OSF) supported palliative care pioneers in the region to establish palliative care services, train health providers, and advocate for the integration into health services.
Objectives: To report on the development of palliative care in Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Tajikistan and Ukraine during the period 2017-2021 and explore the impact of OSF's sustained funding for palliative care in these countries.
Context: Between 2000 and 2020 Open Society Foundations was one of very few funders that supported global palliative care development and advocacy.
Objectives: To describe progress made in three priority areas-the integration of palliative care into public health systems, access to controlled medicines, and pediatric palliative care-during those 20 years.
Methods: Activities and developments between 2000 and 2020 on global integration of palliative care into health systems, access to and availability of controlled medicines, and pediatric palliative care are described and analyzed.
Context: This article provides a progress update on the development of palliative care in five countries in Africa-Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda-between 2017 and 2021, and explores the role of palliative care advocates and the Open Society Foundations in this process.
Objectives: To provide a progress update on the development of palliative care in Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda between 2017 and 2021 and to examine the impact of twenty years of Open Society Foundations support for palliative care in the region on the integration of palliative care into publicly funded health systems.
Methods: In the mid-2000s, palliative care pioneers in these five countries, supported by Open Society Foundations, began to train health care providers and engage policy makers to ensure that people with life-limiting illnesses and their families had access to appropriate services and essential medicines.