Last Wednesday, the World Health Assembly adopted a strategy to speed up the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem. But Kenyan women are increasingly getting cervical cancer and thousands die every year. A woman in an informal urban settlement, who has been bleeding for months, will ignore the flow for lack of knowledge that she has symptoms of cervical cancer. Community health workers do sensitisation on HIV/Aids and drug adherence but not cervical cancer ­— yet such women are at a higher risk of cancer. Cervical cancer should no longer be seen as a “woman’s disease”.

Source: Daily Nation August 23, 2020 20:37 UTC