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  • February 6, 2026
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Public health initiatives

Global Fight Against Cervical Cancer Threatened by US Funding Freeze

In 2011, Maina Modu, an immunization officer in Borno, a northeastern state of Nigeria, experienced a loss that would forever shape his mission in life. His wife, Hauwa, succumbed to cervical cancer, one of 349,000 preventable deaths women face worldwide…