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India Campaign update Summer 2011

In India, we visited 2 hospitals, Sri Sathya Sai Mobile Hospital (SSSMH) in Puttaparthi (Andhra Pradesh) and the Public Health Research Institute of India (PHRII) in Mysore (Karnataka). We trained 27 gynecologists, examined 657 women, and treated 24 women for precancerous cells. PINCC donated both cryotherapy and LEEP equipment. Puttaparthi is now functioning independently, serving 12 central villages, which draw from 27 smaller ones. We are planning an expansion of services with the Mysore...

What Success Looks Like: India, Dec. 2010

Initiation of a Comprehensive Cervical Cancer Prevention Program in South India Rhoda Nussbaum, M.D. December 2010 In August of 2009, a team consisting of two doctors and 2 lay volunteers from PINCC (Prevention International: No Cervical Cancer) came to Puttaparthi, a town northeast of Bangalore, to bring their programme to the Sri Sathya Sai Mobile Hospital. PINCC is a small NGO based in California whose mission is to train health care providers in low tech, low cost, and proven to be...