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Botswana hosts 8th Int African Palliative Care Conference & 5th African Ministers of Health Session

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Capacity building as a key component of Palliative Care Integration -Franciscah Tsikai

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Why Early Detection Saves Lives – A Palliative Care Perspective on Breast Cancer in Africa

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Ghana expands access and strengthens excellence

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When Medicine Meets Meaning: Piloting a Spiritual Care Assessment Tool in Uganda

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Increasing The Palliative Care Workforce in Kenya Using The ‘Hi-Five’ Approach

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A Message of Gratitude from the APCA Executive Director

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Celebrating Innovation in Palliative Care: Winners of Inaugural APCA Radical Innovations Challenge

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APCA–TCT 2025 Photo Competition: Winners & Gallery

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A Beginner’s Guide to Dying

A Beginner’s Guide to Dying is Simon Boas’s tender, witty reflection on life, love, and mortality. Diagnosed with incurable cancer in his mid-40s, Simon chose to face death as he lived — with optimism, humour, and generosity. This extraordinary book, praised as “funny and touching” (Sunday Times) and “extraordinary” (Observer), is less about dying than it is a celebration of the joy and preciousness of life — and how embracing death can teach us to live more fully.

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We are a pan-African organisation ensuring that palliative care is widely understood, integrated into health systems at all levels and underpinned by evidence in order to reduce pain and suffering across Africa

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Evidence Based Care

155

Education scholarship awarded over the years

42

Countries Supported to develop Palliative Care Services

275

Small grants awarded towards the support of palliative care service delivery

1268

Children receiving Palliative care (Small Grants)

23581

Adults receiving palliative care (Small grants scheme)

4

African Ministers of Health meetings on palliative care convened

173

Peer reviewed palliative care publications

86

Partnerships developed across geographical regions

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Every year, millions of people in Africa suffer from life-threatening and chronic illnesses, and the majority of them do not have access to quality palliative care

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