Associations may also provide information on research, resources, publications, education and training and standards.
You can also get useful local information from regional information resource centres.
To search for hospice and palliative care national and pan-national associations in particularly geographical regions, please search our online directory.
Find information for:
African Palliative Care Association (APCA)
Email: info@apca.co.ug
Website: www.apca.org.ug
Hospice Africa (Uganda) - Resource and Training Centre
This centre provides a key publication called The Little Blue Book, a palliative care manual for cancer or AIDS patients in Uganda and Africa.
Email: info@hospice.or.ug
Website: www.hospiceafrica.or.ug
Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network
This network includes: Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
You need to be a member to access education, training and resources.
Email: aphn@nccs.com.sg
Website: www.aphn.org
The Pain & Palliative Care Society, Kozhikode
This is a WHO Demonstration Project in Palliative Care providing training and low-cost publications aimed at people from developing countries.
Email: pain@vsnl.com
Website: www.painandpalliativecare.org
Palliative Care Australia
Email: pcainc@palliativecare.org.au
Website: www.palliativecare.org.au
Hospice New Zealand
Email: admin@hospice.org.nz
Website: www.hospice.org.nz
European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC)
The EAPC website includes the EAPC Task Force on the Development of Palliative Care in Europe.
Email: e.a.p.c@istitutotumori.mi.it
Website: www.eapcnet.org
Eastern and Central Europe
Eastern and Central Europe Palliative Task Force (ECEPT)
Email: ecept@oncology.am.poznan.pl or mmstanczyk@am.poznan.pl
Website: www.oncology.am.poznan.pl/ecept
Casa Sperantei, Regional Resource and Training Centre for Palliative Medicine
The centre provides courses in Romanian and English.
Email: cshospice@hospice.bv.astral.ro or crhospice@hospice.bv.astral.ro
Website: www.hospice.ro
National Hospice Palliative Care Organization
Email: nhpco_info@nhpco.org
Website: www.nhpco.org
NHPCO Office of International Development
Website: www.nhpco.org/global
Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA)
Email: info@chpca.net
Website: www.chpca.net (English and French)
Asociación Latinoamericana de Cuidados Paliativos (ALCP)
Email: info@cuidadospaliativos.org
Website: www.cuidadospaliativos.org
Pallium Latinoamerica
This organisation provides education, training and resources (including a free download of the manual “Fundamentos de cuidados paliativos”).
Email: info@pallium.org
Website: www.pallium.org.ar
Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance
This is a network of national palliative care associations across the world which works to support efforts to develop hospice and palliative care services globally.
Email: cmorris@thewpca.org
Website: www.thewpca.org
Useful resource for national associations
The Palliative Care Association Toolkit is an online resource that offers technical assistance and numerous resources for national palliative care associations.
Website: www.nhpco.org/associationtoolkit
