Cervical cancer: We can, must and should do more

These so-called diseases of "lifestyle", diseases of the "affluent" that keep going forgotten, underfunded, never quite making it onto the global agendas, threaten to stall the progress in development we've worked so hard to make and are likely to turn back the achievements of our modern world if we don't attend to them with a degree of force and as a matter of urgency.

Lest we forget, as we like to do, that Africa means us too, South African. Our cancer rates are alarmingly high too. Particularly so for cervical cancer, a disease that now is almost entirely preventable and for many developed nations has been reduced to nothing more than an inconvenient prick at age 12 and a couple of routine pap smears once womanhood ensues.