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Sub-Saharan Africa

• APCA: African Palliative Care Association
  Promoting and supporting affordable and culturally appropriate palliative care throughout Africa.
  • Special report on Palliative Care by the Africa Health Magazine supported by the Diana Fund (PDF 7.3MB)
• FHSSA: Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa
  To support and advance palliative care in sub-Saharan Africa through international partnerships.
• Hospice Africa (UK Charity)
  A UK registered charity, founded August 1993, committed to providing, or supporting the provision, of palliative care to cancer and HIV/AIDS patients in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Palliative Care Development in Africa: How Can We Provide Enough Quality Care?
  R A Powell, F N Mwangi-Powell, F Kiyange, L Radbruch, R Harding. BMJ Support Palliat Care 2011;1:113-114

Ethiopia

PalliativeCare & PainRelief Newsletter
The first palliative care newsletter from Ethiopia highlighting several new developments, including the availability of oral morphine and the recognition of palliative medicine as a medical specialty in Ethiopia.
Download newsletter (2 MB)

Kenya

• Kenya National Cancer Control Strategy 2011-2016 published in August 2011 (PDF 650KB)
• HCK: Hospice Care Kenya
  An independent UK charity established in 1991 to promote the development of the hospice movement in Kenya.

Jethro's Story: Voices for Palliative Care in Kenya

Jethro's Story: Voices for Palliative Care in Kenya

In Kenya, hundreds of thousands of children suffer from HIV/AIDS, cancer, and other illnesses. They often experience severe, debilitating pain. Morphine and other medicines can cheaply and easily bring relief, but very few sick children receive them. This is Jethro's story.

Sammy's Story: Voices for Palliative Care in Kenya

Sammy's Story: Voices for Palliative Care in Kenya

In Kenya, hundreds of thousands of children suffer from HIV/AIDS, cancer, and other illnesses. They often experience severe, debilitating pain. Morphine and other medicines can cheaply and easily bring relief, but very few sick children receive them. This is Sammy's story.

There is an urgent need for palliative care globally. In this inspiring video, palliative care is provided to hospice patients living in Kenya, a region where many patients have no running water, no proper sanitation, and are confined to their homes.

This video is found at http://vimeo.com/16686625

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South Africa

• HPCA: Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa
  The South Africa organization for hospice and palliative care.
  • 2011 HPCA Congress Video Presentations

Tanzania

• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, Palliative Care Program
• I Was Sick and You Cared for Me: a Church-based Response to Palliative Care in Tanzania
  A report of a two-year pilot project led by international NGO Tearfund, with support from the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, to introduce palliative care into the hospitals and remote communities of Tanzania's lake zone, in the north of the country. (PDF 946KB)

Uganda

• HAU: Hospice Africa Uganda
  The hospice model for Africa, culturally appropriate and affordable with a mission to assist other initiatives in Sub Saharan Africa through service, training, research and networking
  • The Blue Book
    Pain and symptom control in the cancer and/or AIDS patient in Uganda and other African countries. English PDF (1.8 MB), French PDF (1.89 MB)
• Kawempe Home Care, Kampala
  Home care for patients and families in the Kawempe division of the Kampala district and Nangabo sub-county in the Wakiso district.

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