Anyone who would like to give time to cancer prevention work in Ethiopia can write to us at the address on the contact page. Say what you can offer — a skill, a professional background, time in a particular town or region — and what kind of work interests you. An enquiry is enough to begin with; a formal proposal is not needed.
The work community volunteering sits alongside
Ethiopia’s cervical screening programme is opportunistic, so a woman is screened where she reaches a facility that offers it and the subject is raised during the visit. In 2019, 4% of Ethiopian women aged 30–49 had ever been screened (opens in a new tab) (WHO Global Health Observatory, indicator NCD_CXCA_SCREENED_WITHIN_TIMEPERIOD; programme type from NCD_CCS_cervicalcancerpgmtype, 2019). What a woman knows, and whether she reaches such a facility, is what decides whether she is screened.
That is why the material we publish gives people questions to ask at whatever facility they attend, rather than instructions that may not hold where they live. Where to get screened sets out those questions. They are worth reading by anyone thinking about community work, because being able to answer them is a large part of what such work involves.
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People who have had a cancer diagnosis, or have cared for someone through one, may want the lived experience page. Advertised posts appear on careers.