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Next month we will be participating in the 5th International African Palliative Care Conference hosted by the African Palliative Care Association and the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance in Kampala, Uganda. We are glad to announce that IAHPC has provided more than $25,000 in traveling grants to enable 15 participants to attend the conference. All the grantees have approved posters in the conference. They are:
| First Name | Last Name | Specialty | Current position / title | City | Country |
| Anita Esenam | Agbeko | Surgery | Palliative Care Team Member | Kumasi | Ghana |
| Anthelme Kouessi | Agdodande | Internal Medicine | Palliative Care services | Cotonour | Benin |
| Andrew | Amata | Anesthesiology | Consultant | East Coast Demerara | Guyana |
| Mildred Ndamukaneyi | Bosha | Social Work | Social Worker | Harare | Zimbabwe |
| Clint | Cupido | Internal Medicine and Palliative Care | Senior Consultant and Director Abundant Life PC | Cape Town | South Africa |
| Nahla | Gafer | Clinical Oncologist | Head Palliative Care Unit | Khartoum | Sudan |
| Eunice | Garanganga | Palliative Care Nurse Adviser | Director | Harare | Zimbabwe |
| Faraja | Kiwanga | Oncology (Master of Medicine | Senior Medical Officer / Resident in radiation therapy | Dar es Salaam | Tanzania |
| Valarie | Maasdorp | Palliative and Bereavement Care Clinical Social Worker | Head of Clinical Services | Harare | Zimbabwe |
| Penelope | Mathe | Social Worker | Social Worker | Johannesburg | South Africa |
| Elvis Joseph | Miti | Palliative Medicine | Project Coordinator | Mitwara | Tanzania |
| David | Musyoki | Nursing | Senor Program Officer | Nairobi | Kenya |
| Durojaiye A. | Omowumi | Clinical Palliative Care Nurse / Lecture | Lecturer | Ilorin | Nigeria |
| Eunice | Omoyeni | Palliative Care / Medicine | Senior Medical Officer | Ibadan | Nigeria |
| Michael | Owusu-Ansah | Family Medicine / Palliative Care | Specialist | Kumasi | Ghana |
Congratulations to the grantees! We look forward to seeing them in Kampala and to reading their reports after their returns.
On a low note, we are deeply saddened by the bombings, mass killings, and recent attacks targeting innocent civilians in Dhaka, Istanbul, Orlando and Medina. We condemn these attacks which have caused extensive suffering to many. At IAHPC we recognize the importance of spirituality and religion for patients and their families. We also believe in religious freedom and support the individual’s right to voluntarily choose to practice or abstain from religious faith. We will continue advocating for the recognition and respect of spirituality, religion and professed faith as expressions of the individual’s right to choose.
We believe that palliative care, with its values of respect, tolerance and compassion serves as an example on how we can all live meaningful and productive lives.
Until next month,
Lukas Radbruch, MD
Chair
Liliana De Lima, MHA
Executive Director
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