Brava: Association satisfied with the participation of Brava residents in a tracking and marching campaign

The Cape Verdean Association for Fight Against Cancer (ACLCC) was satisfied with the level of participation of men and women in the cancer screening campaign and in the 2nd November Blue March on Brava Island.

The association, in partnership with health structures in the Fogo/Brava region, started on Saturday, 16th, as part of the Blue November campaign, a series of activities to raise awareness and screen for cervical, breast and prostate cancers, and today they carried out the screenings and a march in Nova Sintra.

Cornélia Miranda Pereira, responsible for ACLCC, was “satisfied” with the number of participants, which according to her “exceeded” the expectations of the association on the island, “mainly” with the presence of men in the screenings.

The official added that on the island there was a “good adhesion” of men, in addition to the women who normally participate in these campaigns, and from the projection that had been made, she considered that they managed to achieve more than 80 percent (%) of what was expected to be done on the island.

Even with the satisfaction achieved, the leader stressed that the ACLCC continues to ask men to go to the health centers, because of the public they have, women always prevail, which means that men need to invest more in the prevention of health.

This, according to her, is due to the field work done by the Health Department and encourages the team to continue with the awareness campaign.

For his part, doctor Sidónio Monteiro also made an “extremely positive” assessment, taking into account the adherence of the Brave population to screening campaigns and marching, compared to other islands.

According to him, they had the opportunity to talk to people, transmit information about prostate cancer, whether in benign prostatic hypertrophy or cancer, asking for collaboration with other people who did not participate in order to join the fight against prostate cancer.

On the prostate side, he added that they reached close to 100 men, in the three locations where they carried out screenings.

What he asks of men is to bet on prevention and with a focus on the need of each one from the age of 45 to worry about the prostate.

The island's Health delegate, Júlio Barros, said he hoped that, taking into account the recommendations that the specialists left, the population would be increasingly attentive and seek health services for screenings.

And for uterine cancer, from the age of 40, and 45 for prostate cancer, a follow-up plan will be drawn up in which men and women at this age are followed up on a quarterly basis, acting in prevention.

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