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Wound care and healing

TRAINING IN WOUND CARE AND HEALING - PALLIATIVE CARE - BENIN 2025

A mission to BENIN took place from October 3 to 10, 2025, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the coordinator of the national palliative care program, and the Beninese Association for Palliative Care (ABSP). It focused on training in wound healing and palliative care. It was preceded by an initial e-learning course on "wounds and healing": a free, low-bandwidth course on the UNFM website. The mission focused on strengthening the skills of Beninese caregivers through practical workshops that allowed them to deepen their knowledge through clinical cases and demonstrations of dressings, led by experts from France and Benin. The primary objective was to train trainers, and the participants, selected by members of the Ministry of Health, were primarily nurses with a master's degree in palliative care, doctors, and midwives. Close support was provided to palliative care units, with discussions on practical clinical situations selected by the participants, which proved very useful in supplementing the continuing education of future trainers.

For more information: AMCC 2025 mission report

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2024 Palliative Care Program in Benin

In collaboration with the Beninese Association for Palliative Care (ABSP) and the National SP program led by Prof. Anthelme Agbodande, the October 2024 mission was organized with the AMCC delegation according to the following terms of reference:

- Training of healthcare professionals in palliative care in the departments of BORGOU and Atlantique;

- Social action: provision of food supplies by USPs to poor patients receiving palliative care;

- Participation in the 3rd Benin Palliative Care Congress in Cotonou.

For more information: AMCC 2024 mission report

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AXEL KAHN AWARD 2023

Dr. Laure Copel, director of the AMCC's pain and palliative care program, was the winner of the second edition of the 2023 Axel Kahn Prize*, awarded for her work in making major contributions to the study of cancer-related pain and its management on the theme: Palliative medicine and support for cancer patients. An oncologist for 20 years, she has been Head of the Palliative Care Unit at the Diaconesses Croix Saint-Simon Hospital Group in Paris since 2014.

For the AMCC's Pain and Palliative Care Program, Dr. Laure COPEL is donating €25,000 to continue the program in French-speaking countries, particularly on the African continent.

*The end of 2023 marks a first: the "Pain and Cancer" program is launched to support research and innovation, with the unique feature of combining the Axel Kahn Prize and the call for projects "Fighting cancer-related pain".  It is estimated that one in two patients with or who have had cancer suffer from chronic pain and that 10 to 15% of patients treated experience intractable pain. Added to this are inequalities in care related to place of residence, stage of the disease, etc.

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2023 Palliative Care Programme – AMCC

Mission 2023

Improving the quality of life of people suffering from serious, potentially fatal illnesses is a new concept in French-speaking Africa and is a major concern for the "Alliance Mondiale Contre le Cancer" (AMCC), which has been working for years on the theme of "pain and palliative care" through several training initiatives in different countries in the sub-region, in partnership with Hospice Africa Uganda and its French branch, Hospice Africa France. In Benin, more than 70,000 people are thought to need palliative care each year due to cancer, AIDS and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The AMCC's palliative care and pain management programme is back on track after a period of uncertainty linked to the Covid pandemic. The team in charge of this programme organised a mission to Benin from 8 to 19 September 2023.

For more information: AMCC 2023 mission report

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