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Hospice and Palliative Care in Africa: A Review of Developments and Challenges

Michael Wright and David Clark

Print publication date: 2006

Print ISBN-13: 9780199206803

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199206803.001.0001

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Hospice and Palliative Care in Africa
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Michael Wright (Contributor Webpage)

David Clark

Jennifer Hunt

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199206803.003.0001

The history of palliative care should be seen in the context of social and political change, ideological conflict, civil war, economic fragility and an inadequate infrastructure. The palliative care in Africa is discussed. The work is intended as a focus for the efforts of existing researchers and palliative care workers and to stimulate research capacity building through the involvement of new colleagues. It also seeks to promote heightened awareness among international funders and donors, with the potential for increased involvement in and additional resources for new and existing programmes. Taking into account the overall development of hospice-palliative care in Africa, the continent's forty-seven countries can be grouped into four categories: (1) no known hospice-palliative care activity; (2) countries with hospice and palliative care capacity building activity; (3) countries with localized provision of hospice and palliative care; and (4) countries where hospice and palliative care activities are approaching integration with the wider public health system. In general, this review of hospice-palliative care developments in Africa shows the impact of individual, charismatically led service initiatives, but also reveals some of their limitations.

Keywords:   palliative care, Africa, hospice, building activity, public health

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