Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance

24/11/2025

The 2025 UHC Day campaign theme is: Unaffordable health costs? We’re sick of it!

More than half the world’s population still lacks access to essential health services. And a quarter of them face financial hardship when paying for health care out of their own pockets, often at the expense of food, education or housing.

The 2025 campaign theme focuses on the lived experience behind these statistics, reminding government decision-makers that unaffordable health costs are making our communities poorer and sicker and holding us back on all of the Sustainable Development Goals. Find out about UHC day here https://ow.ly/vUVV50XsKCn

21/11/2025

Thank You for Participating: World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2025! It is not too late to register your event with us on the global map for palliative care. So far WHPCA has measured almost 200 events in 74 countries. Add your World Day event here https://ow.ly/Tinx50XsKj7

20/11/2025

Universal Health Coverage Day 2025, 12 December, is fast approaching. Use your voice to advocate for UHC and have a greater say in government decisions about your health. For more information log on to https://ow.ly/bmQh50XsK62

19/11/2025

Palliative Care Australia and Painaustralia advance national conversation on pain management at end of life.
Palliative Care Australia (PCA) and Painaustralia (PA) joined forces at Parliament House to emphasise the urgent need for timely pain assessment and management, and to ensure continued access to essential pain relief medicines for people receiving palliative care. Find more information here https://ow.ly/tbyE50XsJeI

18/11/2025

Eastern Mediterranean region adopts landmark palliative care resolution: https://ow.ly/bRHf50XsIWR

17/11/2025

In the spirit of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2025—and aligned with this year’s theme, “Achieving the Promise: Universal Access to Palliative Care”—APCA warmly invites you to download and read the 2025 African Palliative Care Atlas to explore country-by-country progress and insights.
https://ow.ly/hw5l50XsIvW

12/11/2025

The World Map of Palliative Care Development, created by the ATLANTES Global Observatory of Palliative Care at the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) at University of Navarra, provides a comparative analysis of palliative care development for 201 countries and territories, representing over 99% of the world’s population. This pioneering research was conducted by ATLANTES using the 14 indicators from the WHO framework and a standardized methodology, with the collaboration of the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA).
In addition, WHPCA collaborated with ATLANTES to produce an article estimating the number of specialized palliative care services and patients worldwide and an estimating the current gap in access to palliative care globally. Download this article https://ow.ly/8Vjy50Xqsxq

Download the ATLANTES published article https://ow.ly/Olaa50Xqsxs

For more information, please visit the Universidad de Navara website https://ow.ly/uGwW50Xqsxt

22/10/2025

11/10/2025

Happy WORLD HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE DAY
Today we celebrate the 20th anniversary of World Day and this year’s theme Achieving the Promise: Universal Access to Palliative Care. Hope your events in so many countries are successful.

06/10/2025

As we kick off palliative care week leading to World Hospice and Palliative Care Day (WHPCD) on 11 October, here are some reflections from the WHPCA Executive Director Dr Stephen Connor.
Achieving the Promise – Universal Access to Palliative Care: World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2025.

World Hospice and Palliative Care Day (WHPCD) was established in 2005 and has since become one of palliative care’s most significant global days. Each year, a different theme is chosen to emphasise an aspect of palliative care that people may not know about or that is relevant to current events. Dr Stephen R Connor, PhD, Executive Director Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA), wrote an article to tell us more about WHPCD 2025 and its call to action. Read the article here https://ow.ly/wJcT50X74Qc

01/10/2025

New Research Handbook on End of Life Care and Society – published Open Access
https://ow.ly/Mw5450X4RQv

23/09/2025

Increasing The Palliative Care Workforce in Kenya Using The ‘Hi-Five’ Approach.

The Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA) jointly with The Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA) created an innovative, budget-friendly model to expand the delivery of quality palliative care services to patients in Kenya. Find more information here https://ow.ly/Qsux50X0MgJ