ONS Connect - February 2008 - (Page 11) 40 20 IRE. U.K. London 0 Amsterdam NETH. BEL. LUX. 20 Berlin Warsaw Minsk 40 60 BELARUS Kyiv RUSSIA Rostov Sea of Vol ga North Atlantic 40 Brussels Paris GERMANY Prague POLAND Bratislava Budapest SLOV. KAZAKHSTAN Aral Sea CZ. REP. UKRAINE MOL. Ocean AZORES Ponta Delgada FRANCE AND. SWITZ. Bern Vienna AUS. Chisinau Tashke Marseille Corsica UZBEKISTAN Black Sea Istanbul Sardinia PORTUGAL Lisbon Barcelona Madrid (PORTUGAL) SPAIN Algiers Oran Fès Ankara Ashgabat Mashhad MADEIRA ISLANDS (PORTUGAL) Strait of Gibraltar Sicily Tehran MALTA Funchal Casablanca Rabat Constantine Valletta MOROCCO Marrakech TUNISIA Mediterranean Sea -Banghazi Alexandria Al Jizah Baghdad IRAN Shiraz Bandar 'Abbas CANARY ISLANDS (SPAIN) Tripoli Las Palmas Laayoune (El Aaiún) ALGERIA LIBYA Tropic of Cancer KUWAIT Western Sahara Nouadhibou EGYPT Medina Riyadh Al Jawf SAUDI Jiddah ARABIA Mecca Ni le OMA 20 MAURITANIA CAPE VERDE Praia Dakar S Tombouctou A H A R A Nouakchott SENEGAL NIGER Agadez Freetown SIERRA LEONE Ogbomoso ue Ibadan Ben Lomé Lagos Monrovia Yamoussoukro Accra PortoLIBERIA CAMEROON Novo Abidjan Douala Malabo CÔTE D'IVOIRE GHANA Vo lta TOGO A Moundou Wh ite Banjul THE GAMBIA Bissau GUINEA-BISSAU Conakry Bamako GUINEA er Nig MALI BURKINA FASO Ouagadougou BENIN Niamey Kano Charlotte L amptey, RN Omdurman , an Khartoum d Juliana CHAD Zinder SUDAN Nile Adarku Tago Sanaa e, RN Hargeysa YEMEN Gulf of Arab Sea Djibouti Aden DJIBOUTI (YEME Socotr NIGERIA Abuja Ababa Juba L São Tomé (EQUA. GUI.) Libreville GABON BASIN GR 0 Equator SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE REP. OF THE CONGO Kisangani Kampala EA Gulf of Guinea Congo T EQUATORIAL GUINEA Yaoundé CONGO UGANDA RI Bangui FT CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC ETHIOPIA V Prov. Admin. Line SOMALIA KENYA Nairobi Mogadishu Annobón Brazzaville Pointe-Noire ANGOLA (St. Helena) DEM. REP. Bukavu OF THE CONGO Kinshasa Kananga Mbuji-Mayi RWANDA Ascension (Cabinda) Kigali Mt. Kilimanjaro Lake (highest point in Victoria Africa, 5895 m) Bujumbura Mombasa BURUNDI Lake Dodoma Zanzibar Tanganyika Indian Ocean Vict Luanda St. Helena (U.K.) TANZANIA Lake Nyasa Cidade de Nacala Blantyre Dar es Salaam SEYCHELLES South Atlantic Ocean 20 ANGOLA Lubango Namibe Zamb NA Lubumbashi MALAWI Kitwe Lilongwe COMOROS Moroni Glorioso Islands (FRANCE) (St. Helena) St. Helena ZAMBIA Lusaka ezi Mayotte (admin. by France, claimed by Comoros) Juan de Nova Island (FRANCE) Mahajanga Tromeli (FRAN Harare ZIMBABWE MOZAMBIQUE Beira Bassas da India (FRANCE) Toamasina Windhoek Tropic of Capricorn Walvis Bay BOTSWANA KALAHARI DESERT Mozambique Channel Europa Island (FRANCE) Antananarivo St. Denis P L M IB MADAGASCAR In Ghanaian culture, for example, can cer is viewed as a curse or the work of the enemy, devil, or an evil spirit and is hardly mentioned. Charlotte Lamptey, RN, who works at the KorleBu Teaching Hospital Scale 1:51,400,000 that this in Accra, Ghana, says cultural beliefEqual-Areathe biggest barri is one of Projection Azimuthal ers to0changing the statistics. 800 Kilometers 0 “Cancer is a taboo or 800 Miles forbidden con 40 Boundary representation is dition, and necessarily authoritative. rather con patients would not sult the gods, oracles, prayer centers, 20 or other spiritual media to know ‘why and who is behind’ the condition,” says Lamptey. “Because of cultural beliefs, most patients, when diagnosed,Gaborone Pretoria Tuesday afternoon for the general will not every Maputo Johannesburg go for treatment but rather go to oracles public. Tagoe says that the clinic also Mbabane SWAZILAND SOUTH ran and prayer centers and come back to Othe sees women who are already diagnosed Maseru ge Durban AFRICA LESOTHO hospital with latestage cancers.” but are referred for multidisciplinary Health awarenessCape Town programs are not cancer management. She says that sim Port Elizabeth very prevalent and are inadequate in ilar screening and health awareness terms of cancer awareness and tobacco programs are offered in churches, mar Indian Ocean control, according to Lamptey’s col ketplaces, and community organizations league, ONS member Juliana Adarku around the country by members of the Tagoe, RN, principal nursing officer in Breast Clinic, Reach for Recovery Gha the Radiotherapy Center at KorleBu na, and the 40 Well Women’s Group from 60 20 0 803300AI (R0210 Teaching Hospital. Trust Hospital. Among the programs the hospital of Lamptey says that the ministry of fers is a breast screening clinic, held health (MOH) also is working for tobacco DES ERT NAMIBIA M Reunion (FRANCE) February 2008 ONS CONNECT 11
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