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Tanzania: Why Sectors Must Join Forces to Tame Cancer
Citizen, 7 February 2019
This week, countries marked World Cancer Day. One of the key ideas of this day is centered on how to work together so that cancer is no longer a death sentence in Africa; simply… Read more »
Why Sectors Must Join Forces to Tame Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa
Due to the limited availability of screening, laboratories, pathologists, and oncologists, cancers diagnosed in Africa have a much higher mortality rate than in other parts of the world. Each year, about 750,000 people in Sub-Saharan Africa develop cancer, AND the number of new cases is predicted to swell to over a million A year in the next five years.
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20 July 2018
The Diseases Africans Need To Be Worrying About
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- AllAfrica
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