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
In Tanzania and across sub-Saharan Africa, breast cancer takes an especially heavy toll. Every year, thousands of women face this disease, with half of all deaths occurring in women under 50—often mothers of young children. The ripple effect of a single breast cancer diagnosis can stretch across generations, leaving behind maternal orphans and families struggling
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