NEW YORK – On January 17, 2025, The Pfizer Foundation progressed a three-year $15 million initiative to help improve the lives of women with breast cancer in Rwanda, Ghana, and Tanzania. Grant funding will be provided to global health nonprofit organizations, Jhpiego and Partners In Health, to support and scale community- and country-led efforts—developed in collaboration with
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