It’s an audacious goal: protect 40 million girls across 40 developing countries against HPV by 2020. This is a goal of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. And it must be met if we are to prevent the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of women from cervical cancer around the globe.
As a volunteer health promoter for the George Health Centre, Violet spends her days out and about, talking about voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC). It’s a task that takes the 58-year-old widow into barbershops, markets, bars, clubs, churches … any place men tend to frequent or congregate.
With support from USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program, nursing and midwifery students in Tanzania benefit from new computers, well-stocked libraries and aptly-equipped clinical skills labs.
