Pain Management in Sub-Saharan Africa: Innovative Approaches to Improving Access

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Pain ManagementVol. 4, No. 1 EditorialPain management in sub-Saharan Africa: innovative approaches to improving accessOlaitan SoyannwoOlaitan SoyannwoHospice & Palliative Care Unit, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. Search for more papers by this authorEmail the corresponding author at folait2001@yahoo.comPublished Online:19 Dec 2013https://doi.org/10.2217/pmt.13.68AboutSectionsView ArticleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInReddit View articleReferences1 Size M, Soyannwo OA, Justins DM. Pain management in developing countries. Anaesthesia62(Suppl. 1),S38–S43 (2007).Crossref, Medline, Google Scholar2 Brennan F, Carr DB, Cousins M. Pain management: a fundamental human right. Anesth. Analg.105(1),205–221 (2007).Crossref, Medline, Google Scholar3 O‘Brien M, Mwangi-Powell F, Adewole IF et al. Improving access to analgesic drugs for patients with cancer in sub-Saharan Africa. Lancet Oncol.14,e176–e182 (2013).Crossref, Medline, Google Scholar4 TheInternational Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) Directory of Members. IASP Press, Washington, DC, USA (1998 and 2008).Google Scholar5 Merriman A. Audacity to Love: The Story of Hospice Africa. The Irish Hospice Foundation, Dublin, Ireland, 223 (2010).Google Scholar6 Merriman A, Harding R. Pain control in the African context: the Ugandan introduction of affordable morphine to relieve suffering at the end of life. Philos. Ethics Humanit. Med.5,10 (2010).Crossref, Medline, Google Scholar101 The Bamako Initiative.www.unicef.org/sowc08/docs/sowc08_panel_2_5.pdf (Accessed 12 October 2013)Google Scholar102 International Association for the Study of Pain. www.iasp-pain.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Grants2/IASPDevelopingCountriesEducationGrant/default.htm (Accessed 14 October 2013)Google Scholar103 African Palliative Care Association.www.africanpalliativecare.org (Accessed 14 October 2013)Google ScholarFiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited ByPalliative care in Africa: a scoping review from 2005–16The Lancet Oncology, Vol. 18, No. 9 Vol. 4, No. 1 Follow us on social media for the latest updates Metrics Downloaded 97 times History Published online 19 December 2013 Published in print January 2014 Information© Future Medicine LtdFinancial & competing interests disclosureThe author has no relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript. This includes employment, consultancies, honoraria, stock ownership or options, expert testimony, grants or patents received or pending, or royalties.No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.PDF download