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Presentations and Conference papers

Welcome to our Presentations section.

Below is a list of our presentations. Incase you are interested in any of them, feel free to request for them at info@hospiceafrica.or.ug

Hospice author

Title of Journal or Book

Date and Publisher

Merriman A

Pain and Symptom Control in the Cancer and/or AIDS

patient in Uganda and Other African Countries, 4th edition. Kampala:

Hospice Uganda, Africa; 2006

May 2006

 

Hospice Africa Uganda

Dr. Jack G. M. Jagwe

WHO Dug Information Vol21, No1, 2007.

Access to Medicines;

Import and safe distribution of Oral Morphine for pain relief in Uganda.

 

 

May 2006

 

WHO

JACK JAGWE a n d ANNE MERRIMAN*

 

Palliative Medicine, an Urgent Public Health

Need in the Developing World

Journal of Public Health Policy (2007) 28, 40 to 41.

doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200096

February 2007

 

Journal PH Policy, US

Gwyther E, Merriman A, Mpanga Sebuyira L, Scheitinger H (Editors) 2006:

Clinical Guide to HIV/AIDS Palliative Care in Africa

 

This book is the fruit of work carried out 2005-6.

*See below for Chapters contributed to this book by Hospice team

February 2007

 

APCA

  

Key to table below:

 

LMS: Lydia Mpanga Seburiya

JGMJ: Dr Jack Jagwe

AM: Anne Merriman

MK: Manjit Kaur

 

 

Hospice Authors

Chapter No.

Title

LMS, Liz Gwyther, AM

1

How to use this Guide

LMS

2

Overview of HIV/AIDS

David Cameron, Kathryn Therese Mngadi, LMS

3

Principles of Clinical Assessment

David Cameron, Vanessa Adams, AM

10

Neuro_psychiatric Problems

Marietta Van Den Berg, LMS

13

End of Live Care

Liz Gwyther, Lucy Finch, Eunice Garangana, MK, AM

20

Care and Support for the Carers

Rose Kiwanuka, Eunice Garanganga, JGMJ

21

Human Sexuality

Liz Gwyther, LMS

22

Ethical and Human rights Issues

AM, Robert Pawinski

33

Effect of economics on service development

Kath Defilippi, David Cameron, AM

34

Models of Community Based Care

JJ

35

Role of Government

Kath Defilippi, AM, Audrey Penrose, Andre Wagner

40

Starting and Managing a Hospice Organisation

AM, Karen Frame

41

Resources

 

 

Other contributors to chapters in this book who previously worked with HAU:

Vanessa Adams (UK), Rose Kiwanuka (PCAU, Uganda), Lucy Finch, (Nde Moyo, Malawi),  Fatia Kiyange (APCA),  Diana Opio (UK), Karen Frame (UK)

 

Previous Distance Learning Diploma students from HAU:

Dorothy Andreas Mandwa (TZI), Rosemary Nasaba (AIDS Relief Organisation-Kampala)

 

Authors from the faculty of Hospice (Lecturers/Trainers on our training Programmes)

Father John Mary Waliggo (Human Rights Commission, Uganda), Sekagya Yahaya Hills (President, Traditional Healers Association),

 

We are so grateful to Helen Scheitinger (USA), who was the Main Editor and worked tirelessly with the groups to bring the book to a successful completion. 

 

 

II CONFERENCES PAPERS PRESENTED BY HOSPICE TEAM 2007-8

 

Hospice Speaker

Conference and Place

Date

Title

Jack BA, Merriman A (2007) Africa

 

Royal College of Nursing International Nursing Research Conference Dundee (Reviewed in the Nursing Standard May 9th vol 21, no35)

1st to 4th May 2007

Nurses prescribing morphine. Evaluating the impact of a morphine prescribing programme in sub Saharan

Manjit Kaur, Ita Harnett, Rob Cornford

PEPFAR 2007 HIV/AIDS Implementers’ meeting, Rwanda.

(poster presentation)

June 2007

Pain and Symptom Burden Among HIV Patients Newly Referred to a Palliative Care Service in Kampala, Uganda

Jack BA, Merriman

A Poster presented at   the European Association for Palliative Care 10th Congress Connecting Diversity Budapest Hungary

9th June 2007

Morphine prescribing by nurses (2007) An evaluation of the impact of a morphine prescribing programme in Sub Saharan Africa

Anne Merriman

Invited speaker: EAPC conference, Budapest

 

9 June 2007

AIDS challenges for palliative care (epidemiology resources and organisation of care etc)

 

Anne Merriman

ditto

ditto

Meet the Experts: Chair:  Speaker: Volunteers in Uganda,

Anne Merriman

Invited speaker: AORTIC Conference, Cape town

24-27 October 2007

Integrating Palliative Care into National Cancer Control Programmes

 

ditto

ditto

ditto

The Blue Book
Palliative Medicine for Africa
en Anglais et Francais!!

 

ditto

ditto

ditto

The Challenge of Delivering PC

 

Bernadette Basemera

APCA conference Nairobi

19th - 21st Sept 2007

Integrating Palliative Care Teaching in health training institutions: HAU experience

 

Mwazi

ditto

ditto

Creating referral network through palliative care training

Martha Rabwoni

ditto

ditto

The Harsh Reality of Oesophageal Cancer.
The Mobile Hospice Mbarara experience

 

Faith Mwangi Powell &

Anne Merriman

 

Invited speaker:

2nd Conference for Africa: African Palliative Care Association:

19-21 September 2007

Real Advocacy: The Spirit and Ethos of Palliative Care

 

Dr Anne Merriman

Invited Speaker:

Faculty of Radiologists, Annual Scientific Meeting,

2007, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin

 

28 September 2007

Palliative Care in Uganda

 

Dr J A Muhairwe

Public Health In Developing countries meeting, LSHTM London UK

 

14th Dec 2007

Role of Community Volunteers in HIV/AIDS care in a Home Based Program. (HAU)

Dr Anne Merriman

Presentations to teams in Malawi units (4), TSH (SL), UCH Nurses (Ibadan, Nigeria), Team Cameroon

Jan-March 2008

Ethos for African Hospices

ditto

Invited speaker: Palliative Care trust of Malawi

24 January 2008

Malawi and Palliative Care

ditto

Invited speaker: WACS meeting, Freetown, Sierra Leone

13 Feb 2008

Palliative care pain and analgesics in Africa-an Overview

 

 

Dr Anne Merriman

Invited speaker: birthday celebration conference to honour Professor Olajide Olaolu Ajayi

 

20 February 2008

 

WHO INITIATIVES IN PALLIATIVE CARE

 

Dr Anne Merriman

UCH Guest Lecture

CPCN and University of Ibadan, Nigeria

21 February 2008

THE AFRICAN CHILD and  PALLIATIVE CARE

 

Manjit Kaur

 

 

UAC 5th National AIDS Conference, Kampala

(Invited oral presentation)

March 2008

Palliative care in Uganda- Research and Practice

Dr Anne Merriman

Invited speaker: 2nd SEMCO-ASCO-ASCOD advanced Course on Cancer Care in the Older Population

27 March 2008

PALLIATIVE CARE IN OLDER PERSONS

 

 

  

HAU PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS  Published 2007-8

 

 

Hospice author

Title of Journal or Book

Date and Publisher

J Jagwe and Anne Merriman

Uganda: Delivering Analgesia in Rural Africa: Opioid Availability and Nurse Prescribing

May 2007, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Vol 33 No. 5, 547-551

Jjagwe and Anne Merriman

Palliative Medicine, an Urgent Public Health

Need in the Developing World

Journal of Public Health Policy (2007) 28, 40–41.

doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200096

JJagwe

Access to Drugs

WHO Drug Information, Vol 21, No. 1, 2007

Jack BA, Merriman A 

 

Dying without pain: the impact of nurses prescribing morphine in Uganda

 

(2008) European Journal of Palliative Care  15, 2: 92 to 95

 

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