Palliative Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Appraisal

This report assesses the current provision of palliative care across sub-Saharan Africa and makes recommendations for scaling up its delivery to reach more of the people living with HIV/AIDS and other life-limiting disease.

The report offers an overview of existing palliative care models inSub-Saharan Africa and provides foundation for donors, policy makers and practitioners wishing to scale-up palliative care provision in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Topics included:

• What are the contextual variables of palliative care specific to sub-Saharan Africa?
• Reducing suffering: the overdue need to include palliative care forpeople with HIV
• What role should palliative care take in HIV/AIDS patient management in sub-Saharan Africa?
• How can home and community-based care be strengthened?
• Which models of palliative care have been delivered in Africa, how, by whom and to which patients?
• Tuberculosis care: are there parallel opportunities?/li>
• How have TB programmes sought to develop and improve patientoutcomes?

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