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The Kenya Uk Breast Cancer Awareness Week: Curriculum Codesign And Codelivery With Direct And Lived Experience Of Breast Cancer Diagnosis And Management, Bahaty Riogi, Carlo Ross, Miriam Mutebi, Rajiv V. Dave May 2022

The Kenya Uk Breast Cancer Awareness Week: Curriculum Codesign And Codelivery With Direct And Lived Experience Of Breast Cancer Diagnosis And Management, Bahaty Riogi, Carlo Ross, Miriam Mutebi, Rajiv V. Dave

General Surgery, East Africa

Global health education holds a paradox: the provision of global health degrees focusing on challenges in low-income and middle-income countries has increased in high-income countries, while those in these low-income and middle-income countries lack access to contribute their expertise, creating an ‘information problem’. Breast cancer is a pressing global health priority, which requires curriculum design, implementation, ownership and leadership by those with direct and lived experience of breast cancer.

The Kenya-UK Breast Cancer Awareness Week was conceptualised following the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Kenyan and UK governments launching the Kenya UK Health Alliance. This alliance aims …