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Harare, Zimbabwe \u2014 The country’s screening initiatives help women detect cervical and breast cancers early — but what happens next?<\/em><\/p>\n In 2018, Pelagia Chikwera, a soft-spoken mother of three, attended a free cervical cancer screening at a hospital in Harare. “There was an advertisement about a free cancer screening, and I decided to go since it was free,” she says. “Little did I know that the results would come back positive.”<\/p>\n She was diagnosed with stage 2B cervical cancer, which means the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Harare, Zimbabwe \u2014 The country’s screening initiatives help women detect cervical and breast cancers early — but what happens next? In 2018, Pelagia Chikwera, a soft-spoken mother of three, attended a free cervical cancer screening at a hospital in Harare. “There was an advertisement about a free cancer screening, and I decided to go since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,6808,6544,20677,257,49093,254,12416,14788,4686,421],"class_list":["post-176957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cancer","tag-free","tag-isnt","tag-news","tag-screenings","tag-south-africa-today","tag-treatment","tag-widely","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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