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Statistics From 2022 Conference

172

Abstracts Received

350

Over 350 delegates from over 40 countries

3

Plenary Sessions
(16 presentations + 1 panel)

5

Workshops

Date & Time

23rd-26th September 2025

Venue

Gaborone International Convention Centre - GICC

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Physical

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Blog 3

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Innovations, Delivery Models, and Technological Interventions

  • Exploring innovative models of palliative care delivery to improve access, quality, and sustainability.

  • Highlighting the role of technology and Artificial Technology (AI) in enhancing diagnostics, imaging, and patient-centered care.

  • Addressing...
  • Exploring innovative models of palliative care delivery to improve access, quality, and sustainability.
  • Highlighting the role of technology and Artificial Technology (AI) in enhancing diagnostics, imaging, and patient-centered care.
  • Addressing the availability, access, and use of essential palliative care medicines, including oral liquid morphine, and other medicines used for symptom management.
  • Strategies for Integrating Palliative Care into the health system to ensure accessibility of services e.g. Primary Health Care (PHC), community-based approaches, developing hospital and home care teams.
  • Palliative care as a cornerstone in mainstream disease management including timely integration into the management of specific conditions and rehabilitation, e.g. neurologic conditions, sickle cell disease, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, etc;
  • Utilising diagnostics and imaging technologies in palliative care and allied health services.
  • Strengthening and expanding the inter-disciplinary team for palliative care e.g. physiotherapy, pharmacy, traditional healers.

Strengthening Palliative Care Education, Training, Leadership and Advocacy

  • Building education and training programmes to strengthen palliative care knowledge and skills among healthcare providers, policymakers, and communities.

  • Establishing palliative care teaching in African universities e.g. medical and nursing schools...
  • Building education and training programmes to strengthen palliative care knowledge and skills among healthcare providers, policymakers, and communities.
  • Establishing palliative care teaching in African universities e.g. medical and nursing schools widely and stimulate research could be addressed.
  • Developing, empowering and mentoring the palliative care leaders of the future.
  • Strengthening advocacy strategies and communication around palliative care.

Paediatric and Adolescent Palliative Care

  • Addressing the unique palliative care needs of neonates, babies, children, and adolescents and their families.
  • Exploring family-centered approaches, caregiver support, and strategies to improve outcomes for paediatric patients.
  • Supporting children...
  • Addressing the unique palliative care needs of neonates, babies, children, and adolescents and their families.
  • Exploring family-centered approaches, caregiver support, and strategies to improve outcomes for paediatric patients.
  • Supporting children and adolescents through the many transitions that they experience during their life and their treatments.

Psychosocial, Spiritual, and Holistic Approaches

  • Integrating spirituality, psychosocial support, mental health and creative arts into palliative care to address emotional and psychological well-being.
  • Discussing approaches to support patients and families through death, dying, and bereavement,...
  • Integrating spirituality, psychosocial support, mental health and creative arts into palliative care to address emotional and psychological well-being.
  • Discussing approaches to support patients and families through death, dying, and bereavement, with an emphasis on cultural sensitivity and holistic care.
  • Caring for the Caregiver.

Ethical, Legal, Financing and Policy Dimensions of Palliative Care

  • Examining ethics, laws, and policies in palliative care, including issues related to patient autonomy, informed consent, access to essential medications.
  • Addressing end-of-life care planning, decision-making, and compassionate bereavement support.
  • Discussing...
  • Examining ethics, laws, and policies in palliative care, including issues related to patient autonomy, informed consent, access to essential medications.
  • Addressing end-of-life care planning, decision-making, and compassionate bereavement support.
  • Discussing policy solutions to improve equitable access to palliative care services and essential medications.
  • Financing Palliative Care and allied health services.

Palliative care in crisis: humanitarian, climate, pandemics.

  • Developing strategies and policies to strengthen palliative care systems and provision in the face of humanitarian crises such as climate change, conflict, and  displacement.
  • Strengthening the health care in palliative...
  • Developing strategies and policies to strengthen palliative care systems and provision in the face of humanitarian crises such as climate change, conflict, and  displacement.
  • Strengthening the health care in palliative care medicines

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