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The Bistro Restaurant launches Water for longer life initiative to support Hospice Africa Uganda #H2OSPICE - WATER FOR LONGER LIFE!
“The Bistro team is making a difference and you are a part of this. Let's work hand in hand with Hospice Uganda,” says Jasjit Mangat, the proprietor... -
Building a new centre of excellence in Mbarara-the beehive project:
Hospice Africa Uganda on 26th October, 2016 launched a fundraising drive that led to the official ground-breaking in November of the dame year for an... -
Smiles again: Boy recovers from cancer, returns to school
Ochecho Vicent is a 10 year old child from Katanabirwa in Kyankwanzi District and was first seen by Hospice Africa Uganda team from Hoima Regional Re... -
A new lease of life after a radiotherapy treatment in Nairobi
Mary Gahoire is a 45 year old mother of 6 children from Hoima District. She is one of our first beneficiary for the radiotherapy treatment for cervic...
On Thursday 19th July 2018, Hospice Africa Uganda was announced the recipient of the 2018 Julian Taft refugee fund awarded by the he Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, under the US Department of State. This grant worth $25,000 will finance our new project “Improving Access to Palliative Care Services for Refugees in South Western Uganda.” The project will be implemented by Mobile Hospice Mbarara and will directly benefit refugees in Nakivale and Oruchinga refugee camps in Isingiro district. The grant will support capacity building and systems strengthening activities within the community in including training of Community Health Workers, Spiritual leaders, traditional leaders and health workers among others. Hospice Africa Uganda on 1st June, 2018 concluded its 7th Francophone Palliative Care Initiator’s course with 16 participants from 9 French speaking African countries including Cameroon, DRC, Congo Brazaville, Guinea Conakry, Mauritania, Niger and Togo. This five week’s intensive training composed of 2 week’s theoretical class work, 2 weeks of practicum where the participants interacted with patients based on our home based care model and the final week was for exams and drawing up of work plans for the initiation of PC services in their respective countries upon return. One of the participants, Messing Bernard a community health worker and founder of Care for the Hopeless Impact Missions, an HIV/AIDS organization in Cameroon thanked HAU for the training saying that “the training has exposed me to the reality of Palliative Care in the community, it was really an eye opener.” By Miriam Donohoe Jovia was lying on a mattress on the ground of her one room house in a slum area of Kampala. Weak and emaciated she was clearly in her last weeks of life. She had cervical cancer and full blown HIV/AIDS, but despite her illness she smiled as she held my hand. I found it hard to hold back the tears. It was early January and I was on one of my first home care visits with Hospice Africa Uganda, a charity whose mission is to bring peace and comfort to people dying from cancer, HIV AIDS and other serious illness. An Irish journalist and media consultant I had no medical experience whatsoever. So I found the visit really tough. I had come to Uganda to volunteer with HAU after learning about this inspiring organization through my work with the Irish Hospice Foundation in Dublin. And the hand of hospice touched me through Jovia, aged 29, a single mother of a 14-year-old daughter, Sharon. The drive to advocate and support the integration of palliative care services in Rubya hospital, Muleba district, Kagera region, Tanzania was initiated by the Dutch doctors known as Friends of Rubya hospital. Their aim was to ensure Rubya hospital team is able to provide relief of pain and suffering of patients and their families later cascade such services to the community through a home based care programme. By Louise Rooney My name is Louise; I am a palliative nurse from Ireland. I was given the opportunity to work alongside the team in HAU for a few months. I was uncertain as to what to expect during my time in Kampala but within the first few hours it was obvious I was going to be privileged to learn from a professional and extremely welcoming team.
HAU is the recipient of the 2018 Julia Taft Refugee Fund
16 MORE HEALTH WORKERS COMPLETE PC INITIATOR’S COURSE
An encounter with cervical cancer patient, a tale of pain and hope
Extending borders: Supporting integration of palliative care services in Rubya hospital Tanzania
By Bernadette Basemera
A Volunteer’s day on patients’ home visit: The pain and suffering of patients is real, palliative care is inevitable
