Hospice Africa Uganda

Hospice Africa Uganda (HAU), is a nonprofit organization founded in 1993 with the vision of Palliative Care reaching all in need in Africa. The organization has since inception cared for over 32,000 patients, mainly with cancer, AIDS and other life threatening illnesses. We have also trained over 10,000 health and non health professionals through our training institute-the Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care in Africa (IHPCA). Our goal is to help the sick and dying have a dignified and peaceful end-of-life. We support affordable, accessible and culturally acceptable palliative care for all in need in Uganda and other African countries and we achieve this through 3 main objectives: 1. Providing appropriate palliative care service to patients, with HIV/AIDS and/or cancer, and their families within defined operational areas. 2. Providing Palliative Care education through a tertiary level institution to professionals in Uganda and other African countries, through advocacy, education and stakeholder training. 3. Facilitating the initiation and expansion of palliative care services in other African countries. HAU also manufactures affordable oral liquid morphine for the all of Uganda through a Government -Private Partnership arrangement with the Ministry of Health. Oral morphine is the preferred medication for severe pain recommended by WHO for use in the home, where most patients want to die. Hospice Africa Uganda operates three centers in Uganda with offices in Makindye in Kampala, Hoima and Mbarara.