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India Campaign November 2012

During our recent trip to India, in November 2012, we completed one cycle and began another. Our fifth trip to Mysore accomplished a great deal, as we fully certified the program begun at The Public Health Research Center and established a referral center for LEEP at JSS Hospital. We also met with the senior directors at the JSS Hospital to develop a plan for scaling up the cervical cancer screening and prevention program, with the vision of screening 70% of women between 25 and 60 in the...

India Campaign January 2012

INDIA: PINCC’s Campaign in January 2012 was very successful, and opened many exciting possibilities for PINCC training sites.  Here are some excerpts from blogs written by John Adams, India Administrator:     “Our team consists of Dr. Rhoda Nussbaum, Medical Director, PINCC-India; Janis Luft, NP; Joy Carlson, non-profit consultant, and Liz Armstrong, RN; and Administrative Director John Adams.  We arrived at Mysore on January 02, 2012, and spent the afternoon at...

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...