Action Africa Help International

Kenyan women and decision-makers to participate in testing an innovative cervical cancer screening device

Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) has announced the winners of its Stars in Global Health Round 5. AAH Kenya with its collaborator Brock University, is one of the 83 recipients to receive a grant of $100,000 CAD for a project that will enable Kenyan women and decision makers to make informed decisions on how to implement an innovative cervical screening self-collection device called iPap.

A low-cost copper device, which has been proven to kill deadly water-borne pathogens, will be field-tested in poor urban and rural households in India and Kenya thanks to a $100,000 Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) Phase I Proof-of-Concept Grant awarded to Drs. Padma Venkat, Caroline Kisia and Ahmad Firas Khalid, students in the International Masters for Health Leadership (IMHL) program at McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management.

Nyeel refugee camp in South Sudan was bustling long before the morning sun touched the sky. Around 200 people had packed everything in their homes and were waiting in line to move from Nyeel to the newly established Ajuong Thok camp situated about 40 kilometers Northeast. Mr. Cleophas Mubangizi, Head of Office, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Unity State, cited consolidation of resources as the main reason for the move. “Being a small camp, it makes more sense to move the refugees to one of the larger locations.”