Building Local Capacity for Cervical and Breast Cancer Control

Knowledge transfer is accomplished through a process of South-South mentoring rendered by a tight knight team of seasoned and highly skilled African and U.S. surgical oncologists, and women's cancer prevention and early detection nurses. Low-cost medical and telecommunications technology is used to enhance the educational process.

Our Objective

We aim to promote sustainable clinical cancer care services across multiple African countries

South to South Training

Through South to South collaborations facilitated by The Friends of Africa, Zambian cancer prevention nurse-specialists and surgical oncologists train healthcare workers from other African nations to detect and treat cervical cancer precursors and early breast lesions using low-cost approaches and appropriate technology.

Intraoperative Mentoring: Women's Cancers

Through our novel clinical/surgical intensification program implemented by our team of gynecologic and breast surgical oncologists, the skills of African gynecologists and general surgeons are quickly enhanced. This proven form of competency-based surgical training was developed in Zambia, and successfully expanded to Malawi and the DRC. It is specifically designed to rapidly build surgical proficiency in resource-constrained settings, based on the principles of deliberate practice, intense replication, and mental narration of a limited repertoire of surgical procedures, thus building immediate cancer surgical capacity.

Didactic and Clinical Education

Didactic conferences and clinical ward rounds are a routine service offered by Friends of Africa's expert consultants.