If you knew that a bad storm was coming, wouldn’t you take cover? If you knew that a car was going to crash into you, wouldn’t you get out of the way? If you knew that lightning was going to strike in a certain area, wouldn’t you leave that area?
These are simple and easy to answer questions. Of course you would get out of the way of these problems, and yet people do not get out of the way of Cervical Cancer in India – even though they know its coming and can do something about it before it gets here!
Cervical Cancer is a cancer of the uterus in women. The cervix of the uterus is the part of the uterus in women which is exposed to the outside world the most. It is precisely because this part of the uterus is exposed to the outside world, that it is able to be infected with a type of virus called a papillomavirus (also called HPV) which can cause Cervical Cancer.
Medical science now knows that this HPV type of virus infection can cause this type of cancer. Medical science also now knows how to PREVENT this type of cancer – by doing regular check-ups called “Pap smears” and by – at a young age – taking a vaccine against the HPV virus which causes the cancer. And yet, despite this knowledge, in India, Cervical Cancer in women is a big killer. Last year over 62,000 women in India DIED of cervical cancer! In fact, Cervical Cancer accounts for almost 1/4 of all cancer cases in India. That is unbelievable! That is just crazy! Why in the world should even ONE woman in India die of something which we can prevent with a vaccine and monitor with a regular simple check up? The answer is: information. We need to get the information out to all women in India that they do not have to die or even get this cancer. All women need to do is to get regular “pap smear” check ups and/or when they are younger, take the vaccine against the HPV virus that causes cervical cancer.
How is uterine Cervical Cancer relevant to IndiaFreelancers.com? Well, on IndiaFreelancers.com we have outstanding programmers and developers. We have unbelievably great minds on IndiaFreelancers.com. I am sure that at least ONE of these great minds on IndiaFreelancers.com can think of an application or a program or a website which can help to educate women in India about Cervical Cancer and how they can help themselves to not get it. I am sure of it. We just need a posting like this to nudge one of our great minds on IndiaFreelancers.com to become enthusiastic about this and make one of their great projects. I bet they will do it and it will be great.
Ranjiv for IndiaFreelancers.com