Breast cancer survival rates are less than 40% in sub-Saharan Africa. Enabling early detection and addressing transport costs could improve the outcomes.
- Professor, Georgetown University
It is not uncommon for people to believe that the cause of their illnesses is a result of curses or punishment from a deity or witchcraft.
People want to talk about how they conceptualise good health as much as they want to explain what caused them to become sick.
An overwhelming majority of respondents didn’t think that their life under lockdown and wider pandemic conditions affected their mental health.
Late detection of breast cancer means treatment is often drastic and frightening for patients.
The aim was to understand intense social problems that accompany people’s medical problems.
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