Goal: To eliminate cervical cancer in Baja, Mexico. This grant brings the DNA testing recommended by WHO in its global initiative to eliminate cervical cancer by 2080, as well as the highly effective treatment tool, thermocoagulator, to prevent cervical cancer from forming especially at its earliest stages, an economically wise approach.
Objective: To upgrade Baja medical professional capability to prevent cervical cancer by providing inexpensive DNA PCR testing for HPV with the culturally appropriate benefits of self-swabbing and 40-second treatment for positive cases that doesn't hurt but lasts 5 years.
Brief description of the project: A more rural and remote peninsula in Mexico, Baja is underserved in health care diagnosis and treatment. Like other LMIC (lower and middle income countries/regions) Baja, Mexico has a high rate of incidence and death from cervical cancer. Yet, cervical cancer is the most preventable cancer, provided availability of adequate screening for HPV infection and early treatment to arrest the virus that causes it.
Need $30,057
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