Driven By Africa, For Africa Improving Access to Cancer Medicines and Technologies through the African Access Initiative (AAI)
2019 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)(2019)
Abstract
The African continent is facing a cancer crisis. African women experience a higher burden of a deadly form of breast cancer than women of other ethnicities. [1] African men are disproportionately impacted by prostate cancer and have poor treatment outcomes. [2] Rates of cervical and liver cancer—both preventable diseases—are 300% and 24% higher, respectively, in Africa than in the United States. [3] These four cancers combined were responsible for more than one-third of all cancer deaths in Africa in 2018. [4] Without prompt intervention, the number of Africans dying from cancer annually is expected to double in twenty years. [5]
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african access initiative,cancer medicines,aai
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