(NEW YORK) — According to the World Health Organization, Lesotho had a cervical cancer rate of 49.9 per every 100,000 women in 2021. An estimated 370 deaths related to cervical cancer were reported in 2019. It is the most common kind of cancer in the […]
pawel.gaul/Getty Images(NEW YORK) According to the World Health Organization, Lesotho had a cervical cancer rate of 49.9 per every 100,000 women in 2021. An estimated 370 deaths related to cervical cancer were reported in 2019. It is the most common kind of cancer in the country with one of the highest incidence rates in the world. Until a few months ago, Lesotho's oncology patients had to make a two-hour trek to Bloemfontein one of South Africa's capital cities Phangisile Mtshali, director of corporate philanthropy at the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, told ABC News. The foundation's president, John Damonti, said the company's outreach and its nonprofit sector have "evolved" to include cancer treatment in response to the needs of their partners and partner countries sinceits efforts to address HIV/AIDS in some of sub-Saharan Africa's "hardest-hit countries" in the 90s. "Everyone has a long way to go on the continent of Africa f