There is evidence that continuous support during labour improves childbirth outcomes, including enhancing the physiological process of labour.
OCTOBER IS BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH
- Early detection of the condition can lead to effective treatment and a positive prognosis.
- About 90% of patients survive for many years after diagnosis when breast cancer is detected at the early stages.
Around 80% of all child cancer cases globally occur in low and middle income countries yet fewer than a third of children are diagnosed in these countries and of those that are treated less than 20% survive.
Child cancer is highly curable with survival rates of around 80% in developed countries yet in low and middle income countries tens of thousands of children die needlessly every year from the disease – most dying without any effective pain relief. Poor diagnosis coupled with too few specially trained doctors and nurses and the mistaken belief that child cancer is too difficult to cure combine to create very low survival rates.
In fact, at least 50% of child cancers can be cured even in resource-poor environments with relatively simple and inexpensive drugs and procedures which have been known to doctors for decades.
Please wear a gold ribbon to showyour support!
The University of Limpopo in collaboration with the University of Venda, has the 1st biennial health sciences research conference on 11-13 September 2019.