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While his two breast cancer clinics help women in Ghana access lifesaving healthcare, Dr. Paul Ofori-Atta’s charity, MOTEC-Life, gives young Ghanaian surgeons access to some of the U.K.’s best doctors, so they can use their new skills to treat children back home.
In Kenya, both the privileged and the poor struggle to pay for breast cancer treatment. As part of our series “The Shifting Burden,” we look at the slow progress toward accessible care in a country where a mammogram costs more than an average month’s salary.
In Thailand, the cost of breast cancer care means many women never get the help they need. In the latest part of our series “The Shifting Burden,” we look at how one cancer center in Bangkok aims to give poorer women the same chances of survival as the privileged.
The conditions in overcrowded refugee camps pose real risks to women undergoing breast cancer treatment. As part of our series “The Shifting Burden,” we meet a Burundian woman in Tanzania who is fighting the disease in the hope of one day seeing her children again.
Almost 70 percent of all breast cancer deaths now occur in low-income countries. In the first part of our series “The Shifting Burden,” we look at how community is key to tackling the disease in countries that are ill-prepared and underfunded.
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