In the obstetrics and gynecology 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. The 43-year-old mother of seven is in the advanced stages of cervical cancer. She noticed an unusual itching after her fifth delivery in 2007. Then in 2011, after her seventh child, she had sharp pains in her pelvis and irregular bleeding. She remembers, “The pain and bleeding didn’t stop. That’s when I started imagining something was wrong with me.” go
Uganda: Cervical cancer: little-known but deadly (IRIN)
