At a rural hospital in Kenya in the late 1990s, Liz Grant saw diseases like cancer and HIV/AIDS destroy lives. “Patients were dying in severe pain, chewing paracetamol—there wasn't sufficient morphine…The voice of one woman still lives with me: ‘I want to go to sleep and wake up dead’”, says Grant, who has worked tirelessly ever since to improve access to palliative care in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). The low priority given to end-of-life care means “it has been an uphill struggle”, says Grant, Assistant Principal and Professor of Global Health and Director of the Global Health Academy at the UK's University of Edinburgh.
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