Poverty

Tackling Cancer Through Universal Health Coverage

Turning the tide through prevention, treatment, and other cancer control interventions depends on strong health systems

Picture shows two people in comfortable chairs from the chest down. at least one of them has an IV in her arm, presumably an infusion of chemo meds.
People sit in a chemotherapy ward while undergoing treatment for cancer at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana, on April 24, 2012. Most of Africa's 2,000 languages have no word for cancer.  REUTERS/Olivier Asselin