AMOLATAR/GULU, 25 June 2012 (IRIN) – In the obstetrics and gynaecology ward of St Mary’s Hospital Lacor in northern Uganda’s Gulu District, Apilli Kilara lies on the floor under a blood-stained sheet, staring at the ceiling.
Kilara, 43, and the mother of seven children, is in the advanced stages of cervical cancer.
“I started experiencing funny itching in my private parts after my fifth delivery in 2007. In November 2011 when I delivered my seventh child, I began noticing an on-and-off sharp pain in my pelvis with sudden bleeding in between my periods,” she told IRIN. “The pain and bleeding didn’t stop, that’s when I started imagining something was wrong with me.” Continue reading “In Uganda, Cervical Cancer is the Silent Killer”
