Paediatric Palliative Care Training

KEHPCA held the first training on Paediatric Palliative Care in Kenya from 29 August to 2 September 2011. In partnership with ICPCN, HPCA and the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, KEHPCA trained 40 paediatric clinicians from across Kenya on a five day...

National Cancer Control Strategy Launch

On Friday 12 August the first Kenyan Cancer Control Strategy was launched in Nairobi at a special event that was presided over by the Minister for Public Health and Sanitation, Hon. Beth Mugo. The strategy will cover a five year period from 2011-2016. Kenya Hospices...

Legal Aid in Palliative Care Programme

In 2010 KEHPCA began implementation of an important new stream of work to introduce Kenyan Hospices and Palliative Care Centres to the provision of legal support for patients, with support from the Open Society Initiative for East Africa. Several cultural groups in...

Health and Research Symposium

In May 2011 KEHPCA supported the health and research symposium Research Utilization in health care provision: From practice to practice. Organized by the University of Dundee’s Distance Learning Masters of Palliative Care students and Master of Nursing students in the...

Conference Report Launched

Held in March 2011, the conference Palliative Care: An essential part of medical and nursing training brought together country teams from ten Sub Sahara Africa countries to review progress on integrating palliative care into core curricula for nurses and doctors...
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