When it comes to cancer, where you live can determine if you live. The vast majority of cancer deaths in the world are in poor countries. In sub-Saharan Africa, cancer deaths are increasing at an alarming rate.
This fund supports Rutgers Global Health Institute’s Botswana-Rutgers Partnership for Health efforts to confront the cancer crisis in Botswana and other sub-Saharan African countries.
Your support enables us to expand lifesaving care, save lives, and build sustainable cancer care systems across sub-Saharan Africa.
Cancer kills nearly 10 million people a year worldwide, but the risk of dying from cancer varies greatly depending on where you live. About 70 percent of these deaths are in low- and middle-income countries—and the disparity is worsening.
Rutgers Global Health Institute, alliance members, and health ministries have created Go Together, a global alliance to expand the cancer care workforce in sub-Saharan Africa, to help address cancer inequities in the region. Go Together serves as a multisectoral, multicounty leadership alliance that creates joint initiatives for training, for workforce development, and for sharing knowledge and best practices to enhance cancer care across sub-Saharan Africa.
Go Together alliance members in each African country will include:
As the African Proverb tells us, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Only together can we all go far.
Click here to watch the Go Together Impact Video and see how our community is coming together to support student success and meaningful engagement. The Go Together Alliance on Vimeo
We invite you to stand with us and support cancer care today.