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| ORGANISATION: | AFRICAN PALLIATIVE CARE ASSOCIATION (APCA) |
| AREA: | SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA INCL. KENYA, TANZANIA, UGANDA & SOUTH AFRICA |
| GRANT PERIOD: | 2006-2009 |
There are tens of thousands of programmes caring for people living with HIV/AIDS across Africa – from tiny village volunteer groups helping their sick relatives and neighbours by providing friendship, doing household chores and cleaning bedridden patients, to national hospices staffed by qualified nurses and doctors offering internationally recognised palliative care.
EJAF has funded dozens of these services, and contributed funding to map where they are across Africa. What was missing was a sense of where different projects were in the spectrum of care, from the very basic to the highly sophisticated, or any kind of ‘roadmap’ about how projects might advance from one level of service to another.
EJAF turned to the African Palliative Care Association (APCA), based in Uganda, to develop such a matrix. In doing so, APCA is reviewing what models of care exist and what palliative care standards exist in and outside Africa. The protocols for this work are peer reviewed by international palliative care experts from the UK and USA.
APCA will then develop a classification and standards matrix that can be used across Africa to determine what type and level of service an organisation is providing, and the steps they would take to progress to a ‘gold standard’. The matrix will be field tested by large and small care organisations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa. A final version will be shared between APCA’s member associations in all countries.