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.
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
Jhpiego concluded Phase 1 of the SUCCESS project in August 2024, supporting cervical cancer prevention and treatment services for nearly 185,000 women in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guatemala, and the Philippines. Funded by Unitaid, SUCCESS (Scale Up Cervical Cancer Elimination with Secondary Prevention Strategy) focuses on early detection of cervical cancer through HPV testing and
