Preview for upcoming South African Hospice and Palliative Care Program

In January-February 2009 I was in South Africa and since then I have been trying to organize a show with the folks working at the South African Hospice and Palliative Care Association. We met up in Cape Town and planned to do an interview online. We both experienced many delays with their hectic and international work schedule, coupled with my production end failures getting up a decent internet “ click to talk” option for the show. I plan now to do a conference call once all the participants are back in Cape Town and available. In the meanwhile, I am posting some information and invite viewers to continue to standby and be patient. This show is a 15 minute non-interview based format to set up the many historical details for this first of its kind international program, ‘Partners in Healthcare, with the Hospice and Palliative Care Association in South Africa. South Africa is one of the world’s worst epicenters of this ongoing pandemic of HIV/AIDS and the show focuses on what hospices and palliative care efforts are doing to help the crisis. Here are a few 'daily life' photographs taken in South Africa, not all grim. For more coverage on this topic, check the link for the PBS special.