JICA medical expert Kanto Tomoko told us about the project.
SOME diseases are strongly related to poverty.
The Reproductive Health Project aims to research the cause of health problems through medical and sociocultural approaches and encourage health service providers and people in the community to work for solutions by themselves. If cervical cancer is detected in an initial asymptomatic stage, it is nearly always curable by surgery. About 500,000 new cases are identified each year. There is a huge discrepancy between incidence in developed and developing countries, largely due to the availability in developed countries of health education, screening and treatment facilities. Cervical cancer is the most common cause of death among Mexican women aged 25 years and older and the third most likely cause of death among all Mexican women.