AfrOx Shoe-box Christmas Gift Appeal
Afrox and the Cancer Society of Ghana are launching an appeal to send 600 shoe-box Christmas gifts to children with cancer in Ghana.
The gifts will be sent from the UK to Ghana in time for Christmas 2008.....Click here for details of how you can help.
Recent trip to Ghana
Prof David Kerr and the Rt Hon Alan Milburn have recently returned from a fact finding mission to Ghana …MORE
The BBC accompanied AfrOx on their recent trip to Ghana. Read Claudia Hammond’s report...MORE and listen to the two Health Check programmes she produced program 1 program 2 (MP3)
Click here to view some photos of the trip
Sing to the Sky, a song promoting AfrOx
It is written and performed by Stephen Dunn & Andy Cairns.
Listen to the song ...Here (MP3)
Read the lyrics ...Here
The Challenge of Cancer Control in Africa
Lingwood RJ., Boyle P., Milburn A., Arbuthnott J., Ngoma T., McCaffrey R., Kerr SH., Kerr DJ.
Nature Reviews Cancer 8:398-403, 2008
http://www.nature.com/nrc/journal/v8/n5/abs/nrc2372.html
Abstract: While the world is focused on controlling the spread of diseases such as HIV and malaria in the developing world, another approaching epidemic has been largely overlooked. The World Heath Organization predicts that there will be 16 million new cancer cases per year in 2020 and 70% of these will be in the developing world. Many of these cancers are preventable, or treatable when detected early enough. Establishing effective, affordable and workable cancer control plans in African countries is one step in the right direction toward limiting this epidemic.
UICC World Cancer Congress
AfrOx will be attending the upcoming UICC World Cancer Congress in Geneva, August 27-31st and we hope to meet you there.