Cancer

Windows of opportunity for SSB taxation

Posted July 12, 2018 by EditorPLOS in Cancer, Food, NCDs, nutrition, Obesity, Politics, sugar

It doesn’t take much for the global public health community to be reminded that sugar sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes are unpopular with a very strong and well-connected opposition. Recent examples include the pre-emption policy signed

The ABCs of cervical cancer prevention in remote locations

Posted September 19, 2017 by EditorPLOS in Cancer, NCDs

In 2014, DB Peru launched The Amazon Community-Based Participatory Cervical Cancer Prevention Programme as a collaborative approach to screening and treatment of cervical cancer in Lower Napo River (LNR) communities in the Peruvian Amazon. In