Bringing breast cancer care closer to women: India’s experience

India

Today, breast cancer is the most common form of women’s cancer. In India, where I live, women suffer disproportionately from breast cancer. Though the incidence is similar to the rate in the U.S. (in both countries, it accounts for about one in four cases of cancer among women), there is a stark difference in mortality.

Milagrosa, the motorbike nurse: Providing care in the community 

Care in the community, one stop at a time Nurse Milagrosa Matsinhe’s first stop today is to check in with Lurdes Ubisse at her home. But first, she has to get there. Meeting clients where they live means taking a motorbike, driven by a colleague, through grasslands near the Chokwe Military Health Center in southern