Increasing demand for cancer prevention, screening and treatment
Engaging communities and networks of people living with HIV to reach those
most at risk – the Jali Afya Model expansion in Mwanza and Dar es Salaam.
The
Problem
• Cancer is a major public health challenge in Tanzania
• Almost 40% of new cancer cases in females in 2018 was cervical cancer
and together with breast cancer it constituted more than 50% of new cases in females in 2018.
• Prostate a quarter of male cancers
• Globally, women living with HIV have up to 5 times higher rates of cervical cancer than other women.
• HIV positive women develop cervical cancer on average 10 years earlier than other women.
Sources: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2018.
UNAIDS, 2016. Kahesa, C et al., 2008.
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