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This study explored the beliefs and practices of 69 breast cancer patients seeking care at Tikur Anbessa Hospital in Addis Ababa, aiming to understand why so many women in Ethiopia present for treatment too late, or not at all, resulting in high mortality rates. Researchers found that low awareness,

This position paper argues that treatment access, not prevention alone, is essential to addressing the rising global cancer burden, since more than half of the world's cancer cases already occur in low- and middle-income countries, which receive only a small share of global cancer funding. Drawing o

This editorial argues that cancer, not HIV/AIDS, is now the bigger health threat facing developing countries, killing more people worldwide each year than AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined, while receiving only a fraction of global health funding and attention. Drawing on lessons from three d

This study traced how 69 breast cancer patients at Ethiopia's only cancer referral hospital actually made their way through the health system, from first noticing symptoms to reaching specialized treatment. It found that patients typically passed through three or more different care sites, often bac

This commentary from Axios researchers proposes a new public health strategy for breast and cervical cancer in developing countries: rather than building separate, stand-alone screening programs, integrate detection for both cancers into existing primary health care services, delivered by nurses at

This Axios International issues paper lays out the scale of the cancer crisis in low- and middle-income countries and highlights Axios's own work in breast and cervical cancer, the two cancers where the organization has built the deepest expertise. It argues that despite widespread fatalism about tr

This study compared school attendance and grade delay between AIDS orphans and non-orphans in three low-income communities in Tanzania and Burkina Faso, testing the common assumption that losing parents to AIDS puts children at a distinct educational disadvantage. While orphans were initially more l

This paper describes a partnership between Axios International, Tikur Anbessa Hospital in Addis Ababa, AstraZeneca, and Ethiopia's Ministry of Health to build breast cancer treatment capacity from nearly nothing. Starting in 2005 with a country that had just one cancer specialist and no standardized

This study analyzed cost and output data from over 200 HIV prevention programs across India, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, and Uganda to answer a basic but important question: does it get cheaper, per person served, to run an HIV prevention program as it grows bigger? The answer was yes almost every