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Story Publication logo March 9, 2012

A Cancer Clinic in the Hills of Haiti

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More people in poor countries die from cancer than from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined...

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Partners in Health and its sister organization Zanmi Lasante have established a health facility in rural Haiti. They've recently added a program to detect and treat cancer. One of their biggest challenges is getting patients who don't recognize their disease to come in and be treated before it's too late.

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