Campaigns - Africa

Cervical Cancer In Uganda - Stats and more - a glimpse into our project

By Erin Cox, MD Screening programs have successfully reduced cervical cancer mortality rates and the incidence of advanced disease in industrialized nations around the world. In the United States, incidence and mortality from cervical cancer was reduced by 74% between 1955 and 1992 with the introduction of PAP smear screening programs (cite). However, in Uganda as well as all over Sub-Saharan Africa, throughout Latin America and Southeast Asia, women continue to die from this preventable...

Uganda and Kenya

Lisa Levine, MD, on Africa: I'm a second year resident in Ob/Gyn at Albert Einstein in the Bronx. Since medical school I have been volunteering with an organization called PINCC. I chose to spend my two week vacation working with PINCC in Africa, helping to see and treat women in addition to teaching the healthcare workers. Kisoro Hospital, Uganda, was the site of our first stop on the PINCC journey. Working with PINCC and 2 dedicated medical students, Chavi Kahn and Eleanor Chung, we trained...

PINCC in Africa

On September 15, 2006, PINCC embarked on its first mission to Africa, starting in Kenya. We began our work in the Siaya district, on the shores of Lake Victoria, among the Luo people. Our team was Dr. Kay Taylor, Pat Sax, our coordinator, and Dr. Terry Dunn, a great urogynecologist from Denver. Our partners in this journey were a large team of doctors and nurses from Matibabu. These American doctors from Kaiser established a clinic and HIV center in this area. We were their first gynecology...