Our current projects include:
We are working with The Shepherd’s Hospice, Sierra Leone, to improve the lives of those affected by HIV and AIDS and TB in eight districts across the country.
Through this project, the Shepherds Hospice supports health care workers and community volunteers to provide good care to people living with HIV and TB.
The Shepherd’s Hospice is the only service in the country permitted to prescribe morphine. The project is also working to develop a national policy on palliative care that will eventually facilitate the roll-out of morphine to all districts in the country.
Funding
This project is funded by the Department for International Development, Civil Society Challenge Fund.
Our partners, the African Palliative Care Association are running this five year project to improve access to pain and symptom controlling drugs for people living with HIV/AIDS.
National associations in Ethiopia, Kenya, Zambia, Rwanda, Tanzania and Malawi are being supported by APCA to address and overcome key barriers to drug availability, at both practice and policy levels.
Funding
This project began in July 2009 and is funded by the Department for International Development, Civil Society Challenge Fund.
Help the Hospices is part of a consortium of academic institutions and public health organizations in this project. We are working to help European governments identify and remove barriers that prevent people from accessing medicines that could improve end of life care, alleviate debilitating pain and treat heroin dependence.
The project will develop tailor-made recommendations for the governments of 12 European countries for improving the accessibility, availability and affordability of controlled medicines.
Project partners include the University of Lancaster, International Harm Reduction Association and the European Association of Palliative Care.
Funding
This project is funded through the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/2007-2013]
We are working with the International Children's Palliative Care Network(ICPCN), addressing the need for appropriate children's palliative care, with pain relieving medicines, for children in Malawi and Maharashtra state in India.
The project is delivering training and mentorship programmes for targeted health workers. During the project they will develop key skills to enable them to incorporate palliative care for children into their work by 2015.
Using the lessons from the training programme, the project will work towards getting children's palliative care included in health professional training curricula. The project will also target opioid control policies to improve access for pain relief in children.
Partners
The lead in-country partners are :
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Palliative Care Association of Malawi (PACAM) with Umodzi Palliative Care Team at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Malawi
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Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPC) with Tata Memorial Hospital in India.
Funding
The project started in October 2010 and is funded by the UK Department for International Development, Civil Society Challenge Fund.
