This project, funded by UNDP-ACT and supported by the Cyprus Ministry of Health, finalised in 2008 and is now in its analytical phase. The primary project objectives were to assess the current status of services for chronic disorders in Cyprus and to promote networking between patients’ rights groups. This was accomplished through specially designed questionnaires sent to both patients and medical care providers. The questionnaires received from patient groups will be analysed, and a scientific paper will be published in a peer-reviewed journal in due course. The outcomes will be published in a future issue of TIF Magazine.
Chronic patients support organisations who participated in the project:
- AIDS Patients’ Friends Association Cyprus
- Patients’ Rights Movement Cyprus
- The Cyprus Association of Cancer Patients and Friends
- Pancyprian Heart Patients Association
- Cyprus Haemophilia Society
- Cyprus Muscular Dystrophy Association
- Cyprus Anti-Cancer Society
- Pancyprian Antianaemia Association
- Cyprus Society for the Protection of Spastic and Handicapped Children
- Adult Congenital Heart Defects Association Cyprus
- Turkish-Cypriot Thalassaemia Society
- Turkish-Cypriot Patients’ Rights Movement