The Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association held its 5th National palliative care conference last week starting from 7th -9th at Laico Regency in Nairobi Kenya. The conference brought together delegate from all parts Kenya, Africa and around the world who are...

Kenya Hospice and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA) has been on the cutting edge of creating awareness on pain management, for this reason KEHPCA team have been travelling to different counties within the country with the intention of training health care workers...

My husband and I came to the construction site of Kimbilio Care Center in Eldoret today. My office is a chair with my computer on my lap, inside the chapel. I look around and see beautifully, bright colored stained glass windows speaking these words to me: Peace...

Paarl in the Western Cape, South Africa is where Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February 1990, twenty-eight years ago. This story is about another release, the release of a child called Quinton who was from a poor neighborhood in Paarl.  This is the...

“Dr Zippy Ali has been actively involved in the advocacy for palliative care in Kenya for the last 15 years. As the Executive director of Kenya Hospice and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA) she has been emphatic, leading the fight for recognition of palliative care in the country.”

It was a moment of delight for Ms Elizabeth Ndung’u, who is the current C.E.O of Nakuru hospice when she was honored and elected as the president of Rotary club in Nakuru County last month. Rotary is a global network of people who are problem-solvers and who see the...

Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA), the umbrella body for hospices and palliative care in Kenya, partnered with the American Cancer Society through SOURCE program, to undertake 3 day spirituality training at Nairobi Baptist church last week...

There is always hope, though sometimes it may change and it may mean something different for each person in any given situation, the word “cancer” is no longer associated to death anymore. “It is weird to say that cancer has been a gift to me but in somewhat ways, it...

Africa, “the last continent, the dark continent, Women the weaker gender, the oppressed gender,” this is what the media has shared for many years but this is also the story that has changed. The sound of celebration will never end, not as long as we have ordinary...

Attend a health-based meeting these days in Kenya and definitely, there will be discussions on palliative care. Palliative care awareness in Kenya is escalating evidenced by the many medical staff going for various trainings on palliative care and more patients...

Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) constitute two-thirds of the global burden of disease, however, they attract 1-2% of global health financing while tuberculosis, malaria, maternal/child care and HIV/AIDS attract 90%. This is according to a report by World Health...

We label them, sicklings, terminally ill, the affected, the victims, ailing and many other disheartening names but in the Access Accelerated summit, people living with non-communicable diseases (PLWNCDs) demonstrated that they are not limited to these labels. They are...

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for the loss of 100,000 lives in Kenya each year. This is according to a report launched by the Ministry of Health on a survey done between April and June 2015. Stakeholder collaboration is the fresh united front in Kenya to...

“Pain is whatever a patient says it is. It exists wherever and whenever a patient says it does”. In an assessment of pain video clip, Dr. John Campbell quotes these famous words said by McCaffery in 1968 about pain management. “The patient is the only judge of their...