More than 300,000 women around the world die from cervical cancer each year. In the U.S., women of Haitian descent are diagnosed with it at higher rates than the general population.
The disease is preventable, though, due to vaccines and effective treatments for conditions that can precede the cancer. That’s why health care workers and even the World Health Organization are focusing on Miami’s Little Haiti to try to save lives.
The rate of cervical cancer in Little Haiti is 38 per 100,000 people — more than four times Florida’s overall rate, 8 per 100,000, according to a study published in Cancer Causes and Control in July 2018.
