Poverty and Culture Undermine Cervical Cancer Treatment
CAIRO, 14 June 2012 (IRIN) – On 30 April the Egyptian government launched a nationwide campaign to raise awareness of cervical cancer and offer free immunization to 15,000 unmarried women on the...
View ArticleSOUTH AFRICA: Decentralizing care and treatment for drug-resistant TB
DURBAN, 14 June 2012 (PlusNews) – South Africa’s move to decentralize the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) has given rise to a crop of nurses equipped not only to initiate patients on HIV...
View ArticleIn Uganda, Cervical Cancer is the Silent Killer
AMOLATAR/GULU, 25 June 2012 (IRIN) – In the obstetrics and gynaecology ward of St Mary’s Hospital Lacor in northern Uganda’s Gulu District, Apilli Kilara lies on the floor under a blood-stained sheet,...
View ArticleHigher Maternal Mortality in Northern Nigeria Mirror Situation in Many West...
Nigeria’s health services halved the maternal mortality rate between 1990 and 2010, but in parts of the predominantly Muslim north, which is less socio-economically advanced, women are 10 times more...
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