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Roche Announces Joint Initiative to Train Healthcare Workers in Africa's Fight Against Cancer

Published in AIDS Weekly, May 10th, 2010

Roche announced the launch of the EDUCARE (EDUcation for Cancer in African REgions) project, which, in concert with IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), will provide support to help combat the growing cancer epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa.

The EDUCARE project is to be piloted in four African countries, and is linked with a wider initiative to build regional training networks in cancer control and a Virtual University for Cancer Control (VUCCnet) in Africa. The EDCUARE project will facilitate a first-of-its-kind exchange of knowledge and skills between both healthcare workers and countries. EDUCARE will further include an online training resource centre, known as...

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