Abstract Hospice Africa Uganda (HAU) is a nongovernmental organization that provides
palliative care services to people living with HIV/AIDS (PHA) and cancer. Based in Kampala …

Bhutan is rich in ethno-medical traditions that are supported by rich medicinal flora found
throughout the country. These ethno-medical systems are broadly categorized into two …

Delivering quality healthcare services to people has become a core issue for the Bhutanese
healthcare system. There are considerable challenges for healthcare policymakers to …

A considerable amount of international research into Quality of Life (QOL) seeks to explain
the determinants of health and well-being as we age. Many older adults in Bhutan continue …

The need for palliative care in Uganda has exponentially increased due to the ageing
population, the increased number of non-communicable diseases and the high prevalence …

The Centre for Palliative Care, based at the only medical university [Bangabandhu Sheikh
Mujib Medical University (BSMMU)] in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in collaboration with Worldwide …

Palliative care has been defined as 'the active holistic care of individuals across all ages
with serious health-related suffering due to severe illness, and especially of those near the …

Eight hundred million people live in Africa, a continent which covers 22 percent of the
world's surface and encompasses some fifty countries. Conflict, poverty, endemic diseases …

Although integral to alleviating serious health-related suffering, global palliative care
remains systemically and culturally inaccessible to many patients living in low-and middle …

Abstract Practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism are rapidly increasing in the United States. The
care they request at the end of life is different in many aspects from traditional end-of-life …