Palliative care adapted to the culture, economy and spiritual beliefs/faith of the individual.
Palliative care for all in need in Africa.
To bring peace to the suffering in Africa, through providing and facilitating affordable and accessible palliative care in Uganda and other African countries.
Hospice Africa Uganda was founded to spread the vision of Hospice Africa, serving as a model that could be adapted to other African countries.
HAU provides holistic care to patients and their families facing life-limiting illnesses and chronic diseases such as cancer, HIV, TB, etc. Holistic care includes pain control, counselling, and psychosocial support programmes.
We have an emergency team on 24 hours a day that can be contacted via mobile phones.
None. Our care is mainly in the patient’s home. We also conduct consultations at hospitals and health centres, where we arrange for at home care, so the patients can return home to his/her family.
We train community volunteers, chosen by the community and through the village chief. These community volunteers are taught basic nursing skills, disease control and how to wash wounds without getting infected. They are also given small amounts of medications as well as essentials like soap, disinfectant, rubber gloves, etc.
No. We are interfaith organisation. We see and help people of all faith, praying and supporting them in their own beliefs to reach God.
Our primary ethos is: the patient and family are at the centre of all we do.
Hospice Africa was founded with the vision for the whole of Africa. It would create a model that would be affordable and culturally adaptable to any other African country. Uganda was chosen for that model following a feasibility study in 1993.
Hospice Africa was registered in Liverpool, U.K. in 1993.
Hospice Africa Uganda was registered in Uganda in 1994.