Our Vision 2030
Our Vision 2030
Transforming palliative & comprehensive chronic care across Africa
Our Vision
Access to palliative and comprehensive chronic care for all in Africa.
A continent where every person—regardless of age, condition, geography or income—receives quality, people-centred care that relieves suffering and improves quality of life from the moment of diagnosis onward.
Our Mission
To ensure palliative and comprehensive chronic care is widely understood, integrated into health systems at all levels, and underpinned by evidence in order to reduce pain and suffering across Africa.
Informing
Policy makers, health workers and communities about comprehensive chronic care as an essential part of Universal Health Coverage.
Integrating
Services, medicines, training and financing into every layer of the health system—home to hospital.
Generating Evidence
That guides African solutions for African challenges.
Why This Matters
By 2030, over 80 % of global deaths involving serious health-related suffering will occur in low- and middle-income countries, the majority in Africa.
Our vision and mission directly respond to:
- The double burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases
- The World Health Assembly resolutions on palliative care (WHA 67.19) and cancer (WHA 70.12)
- The UN Sustainable Development Goal 3 target on universal health coverage
Core Values That Guide Us
Collaboration
We work with, not for: governments, hospices, universities, survivors, donors.
Integrity
Transparent stewardship of every dollar, medicine and data point.
Diversity & Inclusion
Services designed for women, children, refugees, rural communities, key populations.
Respect
Listening to patients, families and carers shapes every programme.
Excellence & Quality
Evidence-based tools, standards and monitoring.
Reliability
Delivering what we promise, on time, and reporting back.
Social Justice
Health as a human right; nobody left behind.
Cultural Sensitivity
Care adapted to African traditions, languages and beliefs.
Teamwork
One APCA: staff, board, members and partners learning and winning together.
What Success Looks Like in 2030
- 46 African countries include palliative & comprehensive chronic care in UHC financing packages.
- Zero stock-outs of oral morphine and other essential medicines.
- 1 million+ health workers trained in basic palliative care competencies.
- African Centre of Excellence generating and translating research into policy.
- National associations thriving in every region, advocating for their communities.
How Can You Be Part of the Vision?
Policy makers
Embed palliative and comprehensive chronic care in national strategies and budgets.
Health institutions
Adopt APCA standards and training curricula.
Donors & private sector
Invest in medicines, innovation and community grants.
Researchers
Join the African Palliative Care Research Network to close the evidence gap.
Patients & carers
Share your voice to keep programmes people-centred.