Vuma Partners with PinkDrive to Close the Care Gap for World Cancer Day
About 105,000 people are diagnosed with cancer in South Africa every year. Additionally, roughly 35,000 people are not reaching cancer screening services due to the pandemic. As South Africa’s leading uncapped fibre internet provider, we at Vuma realise that COVID-19 has dramatically reduced the routine screening and treatment of non-communicable diseases such as cancer and diabetes.
To commemorate World Cancer Day, Vuma sponsored PinkDrive to take its Mobile Health Unit to Bara Taxi Rank on 3 February 2022. This allowed people within the community to access health screening and educational resources for gender-related cancers, including breast, cervical, and prostate cancer.
The theme for World Cancer Day 2022 - 2025 – #CloseTheCareGap – is all about raising awareness of this equity gap that affects almost everyone in high- as well as low- and middle-income countries. However, a care gap is costing lives across the world. We know that cancer and other diseases continue to impact countless South Africans. That’s why we believe in creating opportunities for our communities through partnerships like this.
Our value extends beyond providing fibre internet infrastructure to embracing the importance of people, communities, and relationships, and we continue to be driven by our ethos – because we can, we must. That’s why we’re proud to empower PinkDrive through access to resources that will help the organisation deliver its essential services to the communities that need them most.
Click here to find out more about our efforts to help those in need across South Africa.