There is a national Cancer Control programme for 1998-2003. A national conference was held in March 2001, in Balti, on 'Geriatric and Palliative Care', organised by the 'Second Breath' group. There are plans to form a National Palliative Care Association. Some individuals have links with ECEPT. OSI, together with matched funding from the Soros Foundation Moldova, from 1999 has supported a programme to develop a national palliative care network in the country and to develop standards for patients with HIV/AIDS, and for palliative care standards generally (to be published in June 2002).