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 organizations to obtain an up...
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, for this reason, should be...
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 in response to the current...
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 this issue. This particular edition...
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 on Controlled Substances and Access...
Palliative Care Association of Uganda (PCAU) is pleased to release another year’s strategic plan describing its current approaches of contributing towards the scaling up of palliative care throughout Uganda.PCAU has the vision of seeing “Palliative Care for all in need in Uganda†and the mission of “To accelerate the integration of palliative care in Uganda...
The conference, held at the Kampala Serena Hotel, brought together 350 delegates from eight countries, with delegates from Austria, Ethiopia, Ireland, Malawi, Uganda, United Kingdom, the United States, and Zimbabwe. It brought together clinicians, academics, human rights advocates, lawyers, clergy, researchers, social workers, policymakers, Ministry of Health officials and donors, representing over 100 organizations, to...
This was done as part of the commemorations for the World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2020 a unified day of action to celebrate and support hospice and palliative care around the world. The WHPCD always brings together all members and other stakeholders to raise their voices for the cause of ensuring access to Palliative...
On Friday, June 26th, 2020, PCAU held its Annual General Meeting for the first time as a virtual meeting. Following restrictions on movement and social-distancing measures in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, PCAU streamed the meeting live from the secretariat with members joining in remotely via Zoom.
As the world continues to unravel under the impact of COVID-19, the children supported by PCAU under our Road to Hope Program are affected by the closure of schools and shrinking resources due to vulnerability. The children on PCAU's Road to Hope Program are child caregivers of palliative care patients from the most vulnerable families.
