ACCP Preventing Cervical Cancer Worldwide
Published on May 24 2010, in the categories: cervical cancer, Preventive measures
Cervical cancer is becoming rarer as methods and organizations for preventing it gain popularity and raise public awareness more successfully with every day.
Even so, cervical cancer still finds it way and kills almost 300.000 women worldwide. The most susceptible to developing it are women from poor countries with at least 80% of cancers related deaths occur in developing countries, and regions like South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Latin America.
Though we are all comforted by the fact that there are so many ways to prevent the cancer or eliminate it early in its development, women from poorer countries even if they are fortunate enough to have such methods within reach, they're most likely not able to afford it.
This is one of the reasons organizations have been formed to facilitate the reach to the Pap test or the vaccine and to fund countries to supply this medicine and tests to the people. One such organization is the ACCP.
With the help of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, between 1999 and 2004, five international organizations formed the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention (ACCP). They all shared the goal of working to fight and prevent cervical cancer in developing countries.
The ACCP's activities and measures include assessing innovative approaches to screening and treatment improves lateral services such as the delivery systems, ensures that a realistic approach is taken in relation with the specific needs of the community helped and works hard to raise awareness of cervical cancer among the people in the community but also to those at home.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has also done more than just jump start the whole thing. All throughout the implementations of its programs the foundation has continues funding and encouraged research and demonstration projects in Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa and Thailand. Their activity goes on as you read this and they are always welcoming new volunteers.
Unfortunately progress is slow and many times volunteers can diagnose the disease but are helpless when it comes to treating it and most of the time, they diagnose it too late in its development to prescribe any treatment at all except one for alleviating pain and other symptoms. But even painkillers are sometimes missing. The best chance for these women is a regular screening. This is vital for the women and it can actually be done using relatively simple technology. If the slightest abnormality is discovered in the tissue it can easily be treated and the women will not develop cancer and will not even experience the smallest discomfort from the condition.
The organization's activity has been highly effective in raising funds and allowing more and more women access to Pap screenings and the cervical cancer vaccine. You can look for a way to contribute yourself and you can be sure you made a difference.
Even so, cervical cancer still finds it way and kills almost 300.000 women worldwide. The most susceptible to developing it are women from poor countries with at least 80% of cancers related deaths occur in developing countries, and regions like South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Latin America.
Though we are all comforted by the fact that there are so many ways to prevent the cancer or eliminate it early in its development, women from poorer countries even if they are fortunate enough to have such methods within reach, they're most likely not able to afford it.
This is one of the reasons organizations have been formed to facilitate the reach to the Pap test or the vaccine and to fund countries to supply this medicine and tests to the people. One such organization is the ACCP.
With the help of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, between 1999 and 2004, five international organizations formed the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention (ACCP). They all shared the goal of working to fight and prevent cervical cancer in developing countries.
The ACCP's activities and measures include assessing innovative approaches to screening and treatment improves lateral services such as the delivery systems, ensures that a realistic approach is taken in relation with the specific needs of the community helped and works hard to raise awareness of cervical cancer among the people in the community but also to those at home.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has also done more than just jump start the whole thing. All throughout the implementations of its programs the foundation has continues funding and encouraged research and demonstration projects in Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa and Thailand. Their activity goes on as you read this and they are always welcoming new volunteers.
Unfortunately progress is slow and many times volunteers can diagnose the disease but are helpless when it comes to treating it and most of the time, they diagnose it too late in its development to prescribe any treatment at all except one for alleviating pain and other symptoms. But even painkillers are sometimes missing. The best chance for these women is a regular screening. This is vital for the women and it can actually be done using relatively simple technology. If the slightest abnormality is discovered in the tissue it can easily be treated and the women will not develop cancer and will not even experience the smallest discomfort from the condition.
The organization's activity has been highly effective in raising funds and allowing more and more women access to Pap screenings and the cervical cancer vaccine. You can look for a way to contribute yourself and you can be sure you made a difference.
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