Emotional seems to be the best word to describe today’s events. Dr. Gordon and I had the opportunity to fly to the very northern part of Ethiopia, a region called Tigray, where our very 1st CCC program was established. When we first arrived, a pleasant and unexpected surprise awaited us—Sara and Tsehay—the first CCC “see...
I leaned about the CCC program through my good friend Stephen. He told me about the many clinics CCC has set up around the world and the thousands of women these clinics have helped. To try and understand CCC’s work I showered him with questions, “How many patients did you treat?” “How many of those...
The April 2015 Ethiopia program in Addis Ababa has finally begun! Team members included Patricia Gordon MD (Founding Director and Board Chair), Judy Carmel (Board Member), Lirona Katzir MD, Mamta Singhvi MD, Elsa Miramontes RN, DeeDee Dorskind (volunteer), Donna Stellini (photojournalist), Stephen Morris (lead coordinator), Yvonne Nong (coordinator), and Bradley Neutel (volunteer). For the week...
The CureCervicalCancer team (led by Dr. Patricia Gordon MD-Harvard/UCLA, Lirona Katzir MD-UCLA, and Mamta Singhvi MD-UCLA) is packed and set to return to Ethiopia in April 2015! We will establish four CCC “See and Treat” programs and train 24 local healthcare providers. Our trainees will become experts in the “See and Treat” procedure and learn...
To revisit the three CCC clinics opened last May was to witness the lasting impact that the program has made. When we entered the main clinic in Quang Ninh at the Major Reproductive Center, each doctor and nurse we had worked with squealed with delight in recognition of our faces and visa versa. There were...
This week has been an extremely eventful and productive one for the CCC team in Quang Ninh, Vietnam, one of the largest and most isolated provinces in the country. In just this short period of time, we resupplied our existing three clinics including the Angel Clinic at the Quang Ninh Center for Reproductive Health Care,...
One of the most beautiful things about working at the CureCervicalCancer clinics, is the wonderful stories we hear on a daily basis. Today, we had the opportunity to hear one such story from a women named Thuy, a 30 year old rice farmer from rural Vietnam (pictured above with Board Member and Director of Volunteers,...
After two days of training at the Quang Ninh Center for Reproductive Health, the CureCervicalCancer team split up to revisit, resupply, and recertify our clinic partners at the existing “See and Treat” centers in Hoanh Bo and Cam Pha. It is well-known, among our healthcare professionals, that there is an epidemic of cervical cancer in...
On the morning of Monday, December 8th, the CureCervicalCancer team was greeted at the Quang Ninh Center for Reproductive Healthcare (QNCRHC) by twenty-two eager and highly-motivated healthcare professionals from the five CCC centers in Northern Vietnam. After a two and one half hour didactic lecture on the fundamentals of “See and Treat,” the first clinic...
This is my first trip to Africa as well as traveling with the CureCervicalCancer team. So far it’s been amazing! I’m an LVN living in Los Angeles, studying to become an RN. My role on the team is the registration of all the women who will be screened and treated. Although this job has it’s...
