Ekaterina Gómez
Friendship has been implementing the cervical cancer screening and treatment program in the northern region of Bangladesh at two floating hospitals, two clinics at Gaibandha and Chilmari, and the Friendship Hospital Shyamnagar in the south. The programme uses a standard protocol including visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA), colposcopy, cryotherapy and thermal ablation in regular … Read more
A team led by Ms. Anika Rahman, Research Officer at the icddr,b travelled from Dhaka to conduct baseline microplanning, AWACAN KOBO training for the baseline survey, and various other activities.
A series of awareness-raising events on cervical cancer prevention took place in the regional groups in Slovakia.
In Slovakia PRESCRIP-TEC project includes women aged 19-64. The implementation of the program is targeted at those groups of Slovak women that have long had very low participation in preventive and screening examinations.
Three medical students from the University Medical Center of Groningen, together with head office and field staff of the Friendship’s Health team visited Gaibandha, Bangladesh in May 2022. They joined in the baseline phase of the PRESCRIP-TEC project in Gaibandha Sundarganj,one of the project locations. A long but pleasant journey To be able to conduct … Read more
The University Medical Centre of Groningen (UMCG) students visited Bangladesh in May. The visit started in Dhaka and took students to other rural areas of the country to participate in the field activities.
In April Dr. Frederik van Slooten, supervisory doctor with the Female Cancer Foundation paid a successful visit to Uganda. He was accompanied by three students of the University Medical Centre Groningen He was in discussions with the Uganda Rural Development and Training Programme (URDT) and the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) and, together, they also visited … Read more
Health volunteer Glorious had some serious personal health concerns about cancer. Through cervical cancer training and the opportunity for cervical screening thereafter she was able to put her concerns to rest. Cervical cancer training in Uganda Glorious is a health volunteer in Kisengwe, Uganda. She is 39 years old and she is part of the … Read more
PRESCRIP-TEC partners trained village health teams in Kakumiro district, Uganda. The training was in the use of the AWACAN tool.
Healthy Regions conducted training for regional groups of health promotion assistants and coordinators from Vranov nad Topľou, Prešov and Sabinov in Košice, Slovakia.
