{"id":15078,"date":"2020-02-07T06:31:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T06:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=15078"},"modified":"2020-02-07T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T15:22:00","slug":"forty-women-to-be-screened-for-cervical-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/forty-women-to-be-screened-for-cervical-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Forty women to be screened for cervical cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jean Marie Harimenshi, Managing Director of Bujumbura Pathology Center-BUJAPATH, a center specialized in the screening and diagnosis of cancer in Burundi, says cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women in Burundi.<\/p>\n

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A patient being consulted at BUJAPATH center<\/p><\/div>\n

“It is a disease that kills women silently. They do not have the courage to do the screening due to its cost and lack of information,\u201d says Dr. Harimenshi.
\nIn a screening campaign organized by BUJAPATH, 40 women-all members of the collective of women associations-CAFOB will be screened free of charge thanks to the support of Ecobank.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s a good thing to be screened in time. It will allow them to follow closely their health condition,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Dr. Harimenshi adds that there are no exact figures of people affected by cervical cancer in Burundi. In 2019, BUJAPATH screened 156 cases and 14% of them tested positive for the disease.<\/p>\n

Agrippine Nyandwi, Chairperson of the Association of People with Cancer \u2013APAC says the lack of information and the high screening cost constitute a barrier for women. “Few women are aware of the importance of timely screening,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

For her, the government should make the equipment available at each hospital and screen women at a lower cost. She adds that more effort should be made to raise awareness of women to be screened as it had been on HIV. \u00abIt is a curable disease if it is detected in time\u201d, she concludes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jean Marie Harimenshi, Managing Director of Bujumbura Pathology Center-BUJAPATH, a center specialized in the screening and diagnosis of cancer in Burundi, says cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women in Burundi. “It is a disease that kills women silently. They do not have the courage to do the screening due to its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,670],"tags":[108,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15079,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15078\/revisions\/15079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}