News | 19 Jan 2023
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among South African women, and the cancer women die of most in our country. But it is also one of the most preventable and treatable forms of cancer so it is in our hands to end it. The cervix connects the vagina (birth canal) to the womb (uterus). Sometimes the cells of the cervix can become cancerous. While all women are at risk for cervical cancer, it happens most often in women over the age of 30. Almost all cervical cancer is caused by the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) – a sexually transmitted…
News | 17 Jan 2023
NACOSA’s Board Chair, Dr Saadiq Kariem, announced his resignation after many years of invaluable service to NACOSA at our Leadership and Networking Summit in November 2022. NACOSA is privileged to have had the leadership and guidance of Dr Kariem since the start of our organisation. A clinician, public health advocate, administrator and leader, Dr Kariem has dedicated his professional life to the struggle against HIV, AIDS and TB and was part of the brave group of people who started South Africa’s first prevention of mother-to-child transmission programme in Khayelitsha in January 1999. “My association with NACOSA has been an incredible…
