At the beginning of the week, CureCervicalCancer traveled to Kisumu, Kenya and held a meeting with all partners and key stakeholders in Kisumu county involved with cervical cancer prevention. This meeting included members of the Kenyan Ministry of Health, Kisumu Medical and Education Trust (KMET), International Cancer Institute, the Family AIDS Care and Education Services...
This past week CureCervicalCancer has trained 22 healthcare providers in comprehensive cervical cancer prevention through VIA and the treatment of precancerous lesions with thermal ablation. The training began on Monday with an informative session in the morning led by CCC clinical advisor Sharon Blosk. Dr. Blosk discussed the prevalence of cervical cancer in Kenya and...
CureCervicalCancer has returned to Nairobi, Kenya this September to train healthcare providers in “See and Treat” and bring thermal ablation to Nairobi. CCC will launch a new partnership with Women4Cancer, a Kenyan based non-profit organization. Women4Cancer focuses on community education as well as advocating for women’s health and early cancer screening. CCC will continue to...
This concludes CCC’s weeklong training in Hue, Vietnam where 20 local healthcare providers were trained in the “See & Treat” method and thermal ablation. The trainees worked hard to screen a total of 877 women with Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid! These women include Hue locals, teachers, and police officers. Each of the six clinic...
Today, CureCervicalCancer began its weeklong training program in Hue, Vietnam, marking the establishment of a new partnership between CCC and the Vietnamese Association of Midwives (VAM). The President of VAM, Phanh Thi Hanh, welcomed trainees and facilitators as well as distinguished guests from the Ministry of Health to the VAM Clinic, where the weeklong training...
CureCervicalCancer completed a successful weeklong “See and Treat” training program for 22 healthcare providers from 12 facilities in Kisumu County, Kenya. We began the week with didactics, where trainees were given a lecture by Dr. Sharon Blosk and Dr. Chemtai Mungo, who joined us from UCSF, on the pathophysiology of cervical cancer. We were joined...
December 3, 2018 Welcome to Vietnam! After many hours of travel, the CureCervicalCancer team has landed at our first stop in Quang Ninh province. On the first day of our trip, we visited two clinics, the Quang Ninh Center for Reproductive Health and the Cam Pha Clinic. At Quang Ninh Center for Reproductive Health, the...
If you have followed the field notes of CureCervicalCancer, you know that we strive to achieve long term impact in the communities which our clinic sites serve. The goal of our high-intensity, high-volume “See & Treat” trainings is not solely to train those select healthcare professionals who are in attendance, but rather to “Train the...
Our second day of training on Ukerewe began with what seemed like an insurmountable challenge: a torrential Tanzanian rainstorm coupled with an island-wide blackout. With no idea of how these events would affect patient or trainee turnout, we nevertheless arrived at Nansio District Hospital at 8:30a.m. to prepare our clinics. Contrary to our expectations, we...
The CCC team, comprised of Program Director Rebecca and Program Coordinators Phorum and Alex, has arrived safely to Mwanza, Tanzania after nearly 35 hours of travel! It’s been one year since CureCervicalCancer was last here, when we held a week-long “See & Treat” training and launched two new Cervical Cancer Prevention Programs. We’ve returned to...
