PCAU in partnership with the Uganda Cancer Institute organized the UCI-PCAU Joint international Conference 2017…
PCAU in partnership with the Uganda Cancer Institute organized the UCI-PCAU Joint international Conference 2017…
The Palliative Care Association of Uganda (PCAU) is working in partnership with the Uganda National Association of the Deaf (UNAD) to advocate for improved access to palliative care for the deaf in Uganda. As part of this partnership, UNAD, PCAU, and other stakeholders developed a Deaf Awareness Module (DAM) for
OSIEA plays an active role in encouraging open, informed dialogue on issues of importance in Eastern Africa. Through a combination of grant-making, advocacy, and convening power, OSIEA can support and amplify the voices of pro-democracy organizations and individuals in the region and strengthen their capacity to hold their governments accountable.
PCAU partnered with Mulago School of Nursing and Midwifery together with the Ministry of Education and Sports to work on a curriculum for a diploma in palliative care nursing curriculum which was finalized and published. As the result, PCAU sponsored training of tutors/mentors of Mulago nursing school for a period
PCAU is working with UGANET to foster Social Justice for Palliative Care Patients in need in Uganda. PCAU has continued to partner with Uganda Network on Law, Ethics and HIV/AIDs (UGANET) to promote palliative care as a human right. This has been done through sensitization on Palliative Care for lecturers
These SOPs have been developed for palliative care teams through a consultative process to guide the provision of palliative care as a continuing essential health service during the COVID-19 pandemic.While using these SOPs, the Ministry of Health and the Palliative Care Association of Uganda encourages all hospices and palliative care
Palliative care addresses the pain and suffering associated with serious chronic illnesses, throughout the disease trajectory from the point of diagnosis through end of life care, for those who succumb to these conditions. There is strong evidence to show that early palliative care interventions improve survival and patient outcomes and,
Welcome to the first edition of the PCAU online newsletter and thank you for your membership and subscription. We send you greetings well aware that this may find some at home or at work contributing to the COVID-19 response. Every part of the world is facing unprecedented circumstances and restrictions
This is the 2nd issue of the PCAU Annual Bulletin allotted at the 4th PCAU Annual Dinner! See how time flies! Some of you must have been at our first Annual Dinner in 2016. Some of you are joining us for the first time. You are all welcome to read
In 2014, the World Health Assembly (WHA67.19) passed a resolution on strengthening palliative care as a component of comprehensive care throughout the life course. The May 2017 WHA70.12 resolution on cancer also commits Governments to provide pain relief and palliative care to their citizens. The African Union (AU) Common Position