African Palliative Care Association

Conferences & workshops


Akankwasa E & Downing J (2005) Models of palliative care delivery and education at Mildmay Uganda.  Palliative Care in Uganda: Completing the Circle of Care.  2nd Biannual Scientific Conference of the Palliative Care Association of Uganda.  Uganda: Jinja (August)


Ddungu H
, Powell RA & Kaye R (2007) Advancing the drug availability agenda in Eastern Africa: Successes, challenges and lessons learnt. The 2nd APCA Conference Kenya: Nairobi (September)


Downing J
(2006) Palliative care in the context of home-based care.  Conference on Community Volunteerism.  Namibia: Windhoek (December)


Downing J
(2006) Developing quality palliative care indicators for Africa.  16th International Congress on Care of the Terminally Ill.  Research Symposium: What in the world can research do about the quality of palliative care?  Canada: Montreal (September)




Downing J
(2006) Why do we need quality indicators for palliative care and how can we use them?  16th International Congress on Care of the Terminally Ill.  Canada: Montreal (September)



Downing J
(2006) Palliative care in Africa.  Canadian Society of Physicians in Palliative Care Annual General Meeting and Continuing Education Session.  Canada: Montreal (September)


Downing J
(2006) Models of palliative care in Africa.  XVI International AIDS Conference.  Canada: Toronto (August)


Downing J
, Powell RA, Alexander C, Cameron S, Connor S, Defilippi K, Garanganga E, Harding R, Kikule E & Mwangi-Powell F (The African Palliative Care Association M&E Reference Group) (2006) Development of the APCA African Palliative Care Outcome Scale (POS).  XVI International AIDS Conference.Canada: Toronto (August)


Downing J
, Powell RA, Alexander C, Cameron S, Connor S, Defilippi K, Garanganga E, Harding R, Kikule E & Mwangi-Powell F (The APCA M&E Reference Group) (2006) The development of the APCA African POS as a monitoring and evaluation tool for palliative care in Africa.  President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Annual Meeting: Building on Success - Ensuring Long-Term Solutions.  South Africa: Durban (June)

Downing J, Defilippi K, Cameron S, Connor S, Garanganga E, Harding R, Kikule E, Powell RA & Mwangi-Powell F (The African Palliative Care Association M&E Reference Group) (2005) Piloting of the African Palliative Care Association’s patient-level quality indicators for palliative care.  Mind, Body and Spirit International Conference, National Hospice and Palliative Care Association of South Africa.  South Africa: Cape Town (December)


Downing J
(2005) ABC of monitoring and evaluation.  Palliative Care in Uganda: Completing the Circle of Care.  2nd Biannual Scientific Conference of the Palliative Care Association of Uganda.  Uganda: Jinja (August)

Downing J (2005) Training in paediatric HIV/AIDS: The Mildmay Experience.  3rd Baylor International Paediatric AIDS Initiative Network meeting.  Uganda: Kampala (May)


Harding R, Powell RA, Kiyange F & Mwangi-Powell F (2006) Opioid pain relief for palliative care in 12 PEPFAR countries.  President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Annual Meeting: Building on Success - Ensuring Long-Term Solutions.  South Africa: Durban (June)



Kaye R
, Powell RA & Connor S (2007) Why and how to develop monitoring, evaluation and reporting (MER) frameworks. The 2nd APCA Conference Kenya: Nairobi (September)


Kiyange F
(2005) Overview of the African Palliative Care Association and current palliative care in Africa. Cancer in Africa: A Call to Action. Dakar: Senegal (November)


Luyirika E, Finkbeiner T, Nabiddo L, Kikule E, Kasule, K, Floyd J, Downing J, Earp M, Shinde S, Namale, A. Nakiyto R, Okullo D, Mermin J, Shaffer N & Brooks JT (2006) Antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected children in Uganda, 2004-05.  XVI International AIDS Conference.  Canada: Toronto (August)


Mwangi-Powell FN
(2007) Connecting diversities to scale-up palliative care in Africa.  Plenary Speaker, 10th Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care. Hungary: Budapest (June)

Mwangi-Powell FN (2007) Speaker: Launch of the FHSSA Diana Legacy Fund.  USA: San Diego


Mwangi-Powell FN
(2007) Cancer and palliative care in Africa. Cancer Control in Africa Health Ministers meeting.  England: London (May)


Mwangi-Powell FN
(2007) Palliative care – The African experience.  7th INCTR Annual Meeting.  Brazil: Sao Paulo

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