Langata women’s clinic serves the female community of the Kibera slum and also the women prisoners. The clinic is located just beyond the confines of the largest slum in Africa, home to nearly a million people and it’s guarded entrance provides women of the community an easy and secure access to healthcare. Some women commit...
This blog is authored by Rosemary Kombo who is a full-time employee of International Medical Corps, Nairobi, Kenya. Just What We Need Most … Cure Cervical Cancer Women in Kenya like in many other developing countries, suffer from very high rates of cervical cancer due to lack of an adequate screening program to detect and...
The sustainable model that CureCervicalCancer is based on is the most efficient and effective way to bring needed screening and treatment for pre cervical cancer to women who would otherwise never have such life saving care. The process we go through to locate and set up clinics is also inspiringly carried out. I have been...
The Kisumu Project is one that has taken extraordinary planning. CureCervicalCancer has worked very hard over many months to make sure that no detail was overlooked in preparation for four fully-functioning and sustainable cervical cancer screening and treatment clinics. As the only gynecologist on this trip, I anticipated focusing on the teaching aspect of...
April 25, 2014 marks a major milestone for CCC and the women of Kisumu County! The mortality rate for cervical cancer is equivalent to that of maternal mortality in this area of western Kenya. Since cervical cancer is nearly 100% preventable if a woman is screened and then treated with cryotherapy, it is life-saving. This...
For the past week here in Kisumu, Kenya, CureCervicalCancer has trained well over a dozen healthcare professionals in the cervical cancer “Single Approach” screening and treatment procedure. Three of these wonderful nurses are from the Gita community clinic, approximately 30 minutes from the city of Kisumu and Jaramogi Hospital. Denis Odero RN (chief nurse), along with...
After an intensive and productive week long theoretical and practical training session in Kisumu, Kenya, 3 of the 12 highly skilled nurses returned to their community hospital in Migosi. The CCC team established in Migosi the sustainable Shelton-Rogers clinic. This CCC/Shelton-Rogers Clinic will be the first of its kind for the women in the suburb...
My name is Robert Oppel, and I am the photojournalist for the CureCervicalCancer Kenya 2014 Project. My day job, however, is working with Dr. Patricia Gordon at a cancer center in Los Angeles. I had expressed an interest in CCC when I witnessed Dr. Gordon’s genuine compassion towards a patient who is a dear friend of...
CCC was astounded to find that we had an exhilarating first day in Nairobi visiting the Langata Women’s Clinic located within the prison. We learned that many of the 600 to 700 women were either waiting trial or had committed minor crimes but had no other choice but to serve their sentences at Langata. We...
When CCC takes on a project in a remote area like Engos, Kenya, we need to learn about the indigenous people who will constitute our patient population. The roughly 900,000 Maasai (who speak Maa as well as some Swahili and English) are pastoralists whose livelihood depends primarily on owning and herding cattle. History The Maasai...
