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...
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...
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...
Today was the CCC Team’s first day of training the local healthcare professionals (over 35 people in attendance)in the “See and Treat” procedure at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital (JOOTRH) in Kisumu, Kenya. The day began with an informational presentation on the theoretical aspects of Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA) and cryotherapy...
Today was our final day in Borgne, Haiti, which culminated in the successful establishment of The Phyllis Clinic, CureCervicalCancer’s 7th ongoing, fully sustainable See and Treat clinic! We had a busy clinic day and saw a record number of women from the community! We were deeply gratified to see the See and Treat stations completely run by...
A 55-year-old thin, petite woman entered the clinic today. She was obviously in pain, moving slowly, and begging for help. She stated that she had severe abdominal and pelvic pain, and had also been feeling feverish over the past few weeks. She mentioned that she had some vaginal spotting as well. We helped her carefully...
Our second clinic day at The Phyllis Clinic saw even more women coming to undergo See and Treat. One of the H.O.P.E. Haiti team members, Ben, who has been working with the hospital for 18 years, was key in getting the word out to the community that our services were available. He worked late into...
Today was the first day of the CureCervicalCancer: The Phyllis Clinic. With the help of Columbia University Millennium Cities Initiative, we were introduced to H.O.P.E. (Haiti Outreach/Pwoje Espwa) and its visionary director, Dr. Rose-Marie Chierici, as well as the wonderful staff of the Borgne Community Hospital. Dr. Thony Voltair, Dr. Alain, and the hospital’s nurse,...
This afternoon, CCC successfully established our second permanent, sustainable cervical cancer “See and Treat” clinic on this project (and in Ethiopia!) in Wukra, Ethiopia. The Cure Cervical Cancer: The Mary Clinic was met by an outpouring of grateful women who flocked to the clinic in order to be screened and treated for premalignant cervical lesions...
