What We Do and Where We Are Working Now

What We Do

PINCC takes a gynecology clinic contained in 6 suitcases and a volunteer staff of doctors, nurses and non-medical personnel to remote and underserved areas. We provide sensitive, culturally integrated education, in the local language, to both patients and health care workers. We examine and treat women with a one-visit, see-and-treat protocol, developed by the World Health Organization's Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention (ACCP). We train the medical personnel at our project clinics in these techniques, returning every six months to each site to continue the training of health workers and to follow up treated women. Once the local health care providers have been sufficiently trained, PINCC gives the clinic a cryotherapy gun and when applicable a LEEP machine with the appropriate support equipment. There are very few programs that offer this type of sustainable, thorough in-the-field training and treatment program for cervical cancer prevention.

Local agencies contract to adopt the program, taking on more responsibility as training progresses, including providing nitrous oxide gas for cryotherapy, providing cytology and histology tests, record keeping, and interim examinations and follow-up. The agencies also often provide interpreters, drivers, assistants, and support staff for clinics when PINCC medical teams are there.

PINCC is currently taking volunteer medical teams to Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru, and India.

Where We are Working Now

Latin America

El Salvador

1. San Salvador MINSA

  • San Martín Clinic
  • San Jacinto Clinic
  • Zacamil Clinic

Nicaragua

1. Centro de Salud, Jalapa MINSA

2. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua (UNAN) León

OB/GYN Residency

Hospital Escuela Oscar Danilo Rosales Arguello (HEODRA) Gynecology Department

Perú

1. Medisol Clinic, Lima

Pathfinders

East Africa

Kenya

1. Kitale District Hospital

2. Kisii District Hospital

3. Pokot District Hospital

Uganda

1. Kayunga General Hospital

Tanzania

1. Shirati General Hospital

2. Bukumbi General Hospital

India

1. St. Joseph's Hospital, in conjunction with Public Health Research Institute of India (PHRI) and the Prerana Reproductive Health Clinic of Mysore, Mysore, state of Karnataka, India

2. Sri Sathya Sai Mobile Clinic, Puttaparthi in Andhra Pradesh State in Southern India