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Elikia: a hope for cervical cancer in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Scientific Publication

Aug 7, 2023 | Magazine: International Journal fo Gynecological Cancer

Luis Chiva  1 , Marta Gonzalez-Rodriguez  2 , Celine Tendobi  3


A group of students and professionals from the University of Navarra traveled to Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo) to research a sustainable alternative to reduce the high mortality rate of cervical cancer in that country. Elikia, which means ‘hope’ in Lingala, is the name of the project on which the group, coordinated by Dr Luis Chiva, Professor of the School of Medicine and Director of the Department of Gynecology of the University of Navarra, have been working for 2 weeks...

CITATION  Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2023 Aug 7;33(8):1316-1317.  doi: 10.1136/ijgc-2022-004220