Cervical cancer screening
May 22, 2025 | News
Every year, over 10,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer in Tanzania, and more than 6,000 die from the disease. Cervical cancer is the most frequent cancer among women in the country. Globally, women living with HIV have a significantly higher risk of...
Oct 20, 2023 | Stories from the Field
Every morning at the Kariba Clinic in Siavonga, Zambia, a nurse carries a flip chart to the facility’s waiting area and begins a presentation on cervical cancer. Women attending the facility for other appointments can sit in on the conversation while they wait, as the...
Jul 26, 2023 | News, Stories from the Field
Ethiopia’s Amhara Regional Health Bureau recognized ICAP last month for its effective and timely support of the bureau’s emergency response efforts to restore HIV services and antiretroviral treatment (ART) in 65 health facilities partially or fully destroyed during a...
May 28, 2023 | News
On this year’s International Day of Action for Women’s Health, the need for renewed recognition and support of women’s sexual and reproductive health rights is of paramount importance. Twenty years ago, ICAP was founded on the premise that women’s health is integral...
Jun 24, 2022 | News
“I was scared cervical cancer screening could be a long procedure and painful. However, I found it to be a simple procedure. They detected the case in a matter of minutes,” said Alem Abera, a cervical cancer patient in Dessie, Ethiopia. “I was treated with cryotherapy...
