Health systems have improved their abilities to identify, diagnose, treat and, increasingly,
achieve viral suppression among people living with HIV (PLHIV). Despite these advances, a …

Spirituality has been identified as an important dimension of quality-of-life. The objective of
this study was to review the literature on quality-of-life and spirituality, their association, and …

Abstract Background Women living in Africa experience the highest burden of cervical
cancer. Research and investment to improve vaccination, screening, and treatment efforts …

Roughly half a million people die of cancer in sub-Saharan Africa every year. Despite rapid
expansion of palliative care for cancer, coverage remains woefully inadequate. The WHO …

Mbembe, 2015 Mbembe, Achille. 2015.“Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the
Archive”. https://wiser. wits. ac. za/system/files/Achille% 20Mbembe% 20 …

Palliative care requires an interdisciplinary team approach to provide the best care for
patients with life-threatening illnesses. Like palliative medicine, rehabilitation also uses an …

Palliative care (PC) has continued to be less available, underutilized, and unintegrated in
many of the healthcare systems, especially in Africa. This scoping review synthesized …

Although antiretroviral therapy has reduced mortality among people with HIV, inadequate
treatment coverage, ageing, and the increasing incidence of organ failure and malignancies …

Background: Clarity on what constitutes a palliative care need is essential to ensure that
health systems and clinical services deliver an appropriate response within Universal Health …

Background There is evidence that a young child's risk of dying increases following the
mother's death, but little is known about the risk when the mother becomes very ill prior to …