Grants awarded under the Palliative Care Initiative
Palliative Care improves the quality of life of patients (both adults and children) and their families facing HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-limiting illnesses.
Ensuring people have access to palliaitve care
Palliative care is an essential part of treatment, care and support for people with life-limiting illnesses. Committed to supporting schemes providing palliative care and anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment via home-based and hospital/clinic based care, PCI has recently awarded grants to:
Chipini Health Centre, Chingale, Malawi
To provide medicines, volunteer support and training, and towards the costs of a new computer and printer. Chipini Health Centre is situated in the rural area of Zomba District, an area of high HIV/AIDS prevalence, reached via 21k of unmade road. The grant will also provide a new motorbike, which will help staff to overcome the huge challenge of reaching patients to provide home-based care.
Ndola Ecumenical Hospice Association, Zambia
To scale-up the hospice's palliative care programme. Funds will support staff and caregivers', as well as contribute towards core and administration costs.
Education and Traning
As part of its work to ensure palliative care is an essential part of, and integrated into, health care systems in sub-Saharan Africa, the Fund's Palliative Care Initiative (PCI) is working to promote the inclusion of palliative care in the curriculum for all health professionals. It is also supporting the development of culturally relevant training programmes for health professionals, informal carers, communities and families.
In working to scale-up education and training opportunities in sub-Saharan Africa, PCI has recently awarded grants to:
African Palliative Care Association (APCA)
To lead work towards ensuring palliative care is integrated into the curriculum of medical and nursing schools in three sub-Saharan African countries.
Hospice Africa Uganda
To contribute towards the running of their Distance Learning Diploma in Palliative Care.
Hospice Palliative Care Association (HPCA)
To continue support to HPCA's Advocacy Officer, whose work is pivotal in promoting the integration of palliative care into the health systems and for advocacy at all levels in South Africa, which has more people living with HIV/AIDS than any other country in the world.
Nairobi Hospice, Kenya
To contribute towards the running of their Distance Learning Diploma in Higher Education in Palliative Care.
San Diego Hospice/Open Society Institute
To provide a contribution to the International Palliative Care Leadership Development Initiative, a two-year development programme aimed at future leaders from resource limited countries.
Tearfund
To support efforts to integrate palliative care into the work of three partner organisations providing home based care in Mwanza, Northern Tanzania.
12/11/2009
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