inequality

How ignorance and gender inequality thwart treatment of a widespread illness

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Credit: Chiara Zarmati On a visit to a woman at home in rural Zambia, community-health worker Janet Chisaila unpacks a bag that contains swabs, sample pots and a 3D-printed model of a vagina and cervix. Using the model, Chisaila explains how to use the swabs to take genital samples. The woman then goes to a … Read more

why I’m fighting racial inequality in prostate-cancer research

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One in four Black men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer.Credit: Getty Olugbenga Samuel Oyeniyi’s research at the University of Sunderland, UK, explores why many Black men do not seek help for symptoms of prostate cancer and uses Black peer educators to change mindsets in the community. March is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month in the … Read more