On Saturday 4 February 2012 KEHPCA will join forces with the Kenya Cancer Association to celebrate World Cancer Day 2012 with a special film screening event in Nairobi. Life Before Death is a multi-award winning documentary about terminally ill patients, their families, and the extraordinary health care professionals fighting to change the culture of medicine to be more focused on care, rather than exclusively on cure. It is an intimate hopeful and life-affirming...

On 14 December 2011, KEHPCA was fortunate to be a guest at Nyeri Hospice’s 2011 open day. Established since 1995, Nyeri Hospice provides essential care and support to patients with life limiting illness in the Mount Kenya region of central Kenya. Through the open day, hospice CEO Saraphina Gichohi and the hospice team were keen to introduce the hospices services to a wide section of the local community, and bring together hospice volunteers and patients for a...

By December 2011, Kenyan Hospices and Palliative Care Units had provided care and support for around 30,000 patients, including 1,200 children over the year. Their work changes lives through providing effective pain relief, clinical care, subsidized or free medication, counselling and spiritual care. Pamoja, the 2011 annual KEHPCA Hospice and Palliative Care Unit newsletter brings together news from Kenya’s hospices, painting a picture of the crucial work that...

Christmas Friend Membership Appeal By this Christmas, Kenyan Hospices and Palliative Care Units will have provided care and support for around 30,000 patients during 2011, including around 1,200 children. Their work changes lives, through providing effective pain relief, clinical care, subsidized or free medication, counseling and spiritual care. This year, between them, they will have to worked to fundraise a significant amount to carry on providing these crucial...

KEHPCA is pleased to announce the launch of its first M-Pesa service. The facility will improve the ease for Friends of KEHPCA to renew or join as a Friend, at just the press of a button, from any location in Kenya. Supporters of KEHPCA who wish to make a donation can also use the service, as well as KEHPCA conference or event attendees who would like a quick and easy way of making ticket payments. KEHPCA’s business number is 830600. Mpesa was entirely developed...

KEHPCA were recently invited by one of Kenya’s biggest mobile phone network operators, Airtel, to come and speak to their staff team about cancer awareness and the role of palliative care. KEHPCA invited Dr Esther Munyoro, Head of the Palliative Care Unit at Kenyatta National Hospital, to make the talk, accompanied by KEHPCA’s Resource Mobiliser Julia Strong. Dr Munyoro presented to a team of around 30 Airtel staff, and highlighted the most common forms of...

On 19-20 September 2011 the United Nations General Assembly held a High Level meeting on the prevention and control of Non-Communicable Diseases. Dr Zipporah Ali, National Co-ordinator of KEHPCA attended to advocate for palliative care as an essential aspect of treatment for patients with Non-Communicable diseases. In attendance from the Kenyan government were President of Kenya Mwai Kibaki and Cabinet Ministers Prof. Nyang Nyong’o, Moses Wetangula, Beth Mugo,...