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Keeping family hopes alive among  African women treated for breast cancer
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Keeping family hopes alive among African women treated for breast cancer

  • Diana Mwango
  • 29 August 2024

In Africa, women's infertility carries a heavy stigma; it becomes their label. Many end up feeling worthless, face harsh treatment from in-laws, abandonment by spouses, or relegation to polygamous marriages, as husbands take additional wives capable of bearing children. For…

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The Kenyan clinical research unit bringing precision cancer medicine to East Africa
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The Kenyan clinical research unit bringing precision cancer medicine to East Africa

  • Diana Mwango
  • 15 May 2024

Four years ago, clinical trials were little discussed in oncology circles in Kenya. In common with the rest of East  Africa, there was no clinical research unit to study treatments for non-communicable diseases such as cancer. No cancer patient living…

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Cancer drugs for Africa… from Africa?
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Cancer drugs for Africa… from Africa?

  • Esther Nakkazi
  • 29 June 2023

More than two years ago, Cipla Quality Chemical Industries, a pharmaceutical manufacturing company in Kampala, Uganda, announced that it would start producing cancer drugs. In a deal agreed in 2021 with the Ministry of Health, the company, which is part…

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North and South ‒ learning faster means learning together
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North and South ‒ learning faster means learning together

  • Swagata Yadavar
  • 12 November 2021

When you look at the vast waiting area in Mumbai’s world leading Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital, pictured above, what do you see? A crowded chaotic scene where sick patients and their relatives sit around for hours, waiting, hoping for someone…

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HPV vaccine “lying around” unused in Africa due to pandemic disruption
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HPV vaccine “lying around” unused in Africa due to pandemic disruption

  • Esther Nakkazi
  • 19 March 2021

Vaccinations for human papillomavirus (HPV) in Africa are well below World Health Organisation (WHO) targets due to COVID-19 pandemic disruptions. The WHO Africa region target was to have 35 countries introduce the HPV vaccine by 2020, but only 16 countries…

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