Table 1.

Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association - Activities to promote excellent palliative care throughout Kenya

Provides program to empower patients and families to recognize their right to have palliative care (this includes access to the care, access to the right pain medications, and other medicines targeted to relieve symptoms associated with cancer, right to choose a power of attorney/to make a will, and the opportunity to make succession plans for one's hildren)

Developed national palliative care guidelines

Integrating palliative care into the public healthcare system, undergraduate medical, and nursing curriculum, in the national cancer control strategy and the national guidelines for cancer management as well as in the Kenya national strategy for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases documents

Working with government officials to place palliative care services in the national health budget

Increasing palliative care education to healthcare professionals

Setting up palliative care units and ensuring that all essential medications are available

Increasing availability of palliative care services to not only hospitals and hospices but also out in the community health centers

Reference: KEHPCA, 2014: http://kehpca.org/wp-content/uploads/Annual-Report-2014_draft.pdf