This project will rent a house in San Salvador and provide medical costs, food, transportation, housing, and support services for women from the poorest regions of El Salvador who are in critical need of cervical cancer treatment. This campaign is sponsored by Basic Health International (BHI), an organization working to eradicate cervical cancer in resource-poor settings throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
El Salvador has one of the world's highest cervical cancer death rates in the world, although the disease is completely preventable with screening. Basic Health International trains in-country health providers to screen for the disease and implement preventative programs. During screenings, a small number of women are inevitably diagnosed with cervical cancer. These women are from the poorest regions in El Salvador and often cannot afford costs of treatment.
This project will ensure that care for women does not end after diagnosis. Since 2005, BHI has set up sustainable screening programs throughout rural El Salvador. However, women from these remote areas live prohibitive distances from treatment facilities and are challenged by economic barriers to care. This project will relocate women to the city of San Salvador for treatment and provide housing, food, transportation, and support services during their stay.
This project will elevate the standard of care for women of El Salvador by ensuring they receive life-saving treatment for a preventable disease. It will foster their return to health and to their lives as mothers, heads-of-households, and valued community members.
"I would not have been able to pay for treatment [without BHI]. Being poor, one cannot afford to pay all of that...with an illness like this it's better to die because we do not have the means to pay"
- Lydia, age 52, El Salvador, Basic Health International cervical cancer patient
Total Funding Received to Date: $10,250
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $0
Total Funding Goal: $10,000
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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