Prevention International: No Cervical Cancer (PINCC)
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April 6, 2012
PINCC is one of the international women health care institute working for the health of the women. They are giving a great contribution in improvement in the health of the women. No Cervical Cancer is their aim and they doing a all hard work to fight with this diseases which are very much dangerous. Cervical Cancer is normally found in women.
http://www.womenhealthcenter.net/articles/health-issues/cervical-cancer
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Will you volunteer or donate to this organization beyond what is required of board members?
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How much of an impact do you think this organization has?
Some
Will you tell others about this organization?
Likely
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
March 10, 2011
I was a PINCC RN volunteer in El Salvador and Nicaragua in both 2009 and 2010. PINCC is a most effective international grass roots women's health initiative. This organization trains local medical professionals in India, Africa, Peru, and Central America in the utilization of WHO approved acetic acid (white vinegar) to screen for pre cancerous cervical lesions. Often in developing countries with minimal medical infrastructue and a highly rural population, many women can not obtain Pap smears or access treatment in a timely manner. PINCC trains the medical professionals in the screening techniques, as well as in the use of donated equipment to treat identified lesions on the same day as the woman's visit.
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The women are extremely grateful for the service that is so much more readily accessible to a greater number and without having to return for innumerable visits when a lesion is discovered.
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I would continue to develop the visual aids. I would like to see additional reproductive health information printed materials in the women's native language.
March 8, 2011
PINCC is an organization that gives meaning to the phrase "more bang for the buck." Although it runs on a shoestring - using a virtually 100% volunteer workforce (medical and non-medical) - it leverages the power of it's endeavor by creating and supporting self-sustaining operations at target sites. I have participated with PINCC in Central America and in Africa as a physician-trainer, offering local healthcare workers an effective and inexpensive approach to 1) early diagnosis of cervical PRE-cancer and 2) accompanying treatment to prevent progression to cancer. Training efforts are directed at healthcare facilities that provide low cost or free women's services.
These procedures are office-based, inexpensive, and highly effective. PINCC re-visits each site several times to validate the quality of work being done and to certify individual healthcare workers (physicians, nurses, physician assistants, nurse-midwives, medical officers, etc.) in the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures they have been taught. PINCC also donates equipment and supplies where necessary, enabling recipients to maintain a very low cost clinical operation over time. The focus may seem narrow, but cervical cancer is the number one cancer killer of women in the developing world. The significant impact of the efforts of this organization, now in operation for 6 years, is expanding over time.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
I have observed a number of healthcare workers become proficient in the specific diagnostic and treatment procedures that will save lives on a weekly and even daily basis.
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If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
PINCC will certainly continue to work on improving the media materials it employs in its teaching, training, and quality assessments.
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Would you volunteer for this group again?
Definitely
For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?
Life-changing
Did the organization use your time wisely?
Very Well
Would you recommend this group to a friend?
Definitely
Did your volunteer experience have an effect on you? (teaching you a new skill, or introducing new friends, etc.)
It was emotionally fulfilling to work with a number of other volunteers from medical and NON-medical backgrounds.
How did this volunteer experience make you feel?
I felt I expanded my skills and it was deeply gratifying to put them to good use.
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2011
May 30, 2010
I had the good fortune to end up with PINCC when looking for a summer internship for my MPH program. The staff and volunteers have been wonderful in giving me an inside look at how a small non-profit goes about making big differences in the lives of women around the world. PINCC has been an exciting and inspirational place to start putting some of my classroom learning into practice.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
the records of the thousands of women who have been saved from cervical cancer by early screening and treatment
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How frequently have you been involved with the organization?
About every week
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
May 29, 2010
When I heard about Prevention International: No Cervical Cancer (PINCC), I knew it was where I was supposed to be giving my time. The focus of the organization is on the grassroots level, on training health care providers in rural areas, on empowering women, and on developing sustainable programs that provide a direct service to the people who need it. I had the privilege to go to Africa with PINCC this past February as a non-medical person. The team was fabulous and we worked together as if we had been doing so for years-even though we were from all different parts of the country/world. We went places that tourists do not go. We met the most amazing courageous women, who against many odds came to be screened, to share their stories and lives with us, and to get help and treatment. To see the face of a woman, filled with relief at receiving treatment, and know that she was not going to die from this disease, is beyond words really. There were many times that I wept with joy as well as with sadness for those we could not help. PINCC is a very small organization that in 5 years is now on 3 continents and in 9 countries working to end death and suffering caused by cervical cancer. Unlike developed countries, cervical cancer is the number 1 cancer killer for women in the developing world. Personally I like the fact that it is a small organization without a large bureaucracy. PINCC like many ngos is struggling in this economy and is also trying to build its infrastructure a bit more, which it needs to do in order to maintain and expand its programs. PINCC relies on volunteers to make up the medical teams; and it relies on the generosity of individual people to open their hearts and wallets to support their important work.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
seeing women with pre-cancerous lesions be treated by nurses and doctors in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania who were being trained by PINCC.
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How frequently have you been involved with the organization?
About every week
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
May 29, 2010
Dr. Kay Taylor, the charismatic and visionary founder of PINCC, invited me to join the Board early on. Kay and I had been neighbors and friends for many years. I already knew something about PINCC. At her retirement party, celebrating a career devoted to women and medicine as an OB/GYN physician at Kaiser Permanente, Kay had announced an ambitious plan for the next phase of her life -- to found a non-profit organization to train health care personnel around the world to screen at risk and poor women for cervical cancer. I immediately accepted Kay's invitation to become part of this effort to provide such critical services. Over the years with PINCC my devotion to and admiration for Kay's vision has deepened as I saw so many talented physicians and volunteers become devoted to PINCC and the incredible impact a small organization can have on the lives of literally thousands of women worldwide, many of them devalued by societies that fail to provide even basic health care services to women past childbearing years. I will soon be retiring myself after decades of legal practice. I too have a vision, to redouble my involvement in PINCC.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
the thousands of women screened for cervical cancer, the hundreds of health care personnel trained to carry on screening at their own and neighboring clinics, and the number of volunteers who contribute their time, effort and money to PINCC.
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How frequently have you been involved with the organization?
About every month
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
May 29, 2010
I am a nurse practitioner and nurse midwife who has been volunteering in both urban and rural sites in El Salvador and Nicaragua for the past two weeks. It has been an intense and rewarding experience, taining nurses, family doctors, gyn residents and gynecologists to do the "see and treat" method described below to try and make a dent in the terribly high rate of cervical cancer, a completely preventible disease.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
Latin America
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When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
May 28, 2010
I am a Gynecologist who has been volunteering at Sai Baba's ashram general hospital in south India. I saw many women with invasive, advanced, deadly cervical cancer. In the US this is a rare disease, but in India, there is no screening available for the poor villagers. I was introduced to the work of PINCC and it was the answer to the dilemma of introducing a low cost, low tech process that effectively prevents this disease in a country that sees almost 300,000 women die from cervical cancer each year. I have been on 3 missions to Africa and India. The doctors that we have trained are continuing to screen and treat village women and teaching their other doctors how to do this examination and treatment. The doctors are grateful because they know they will be saving women from horrible deaths in isolation and pain. The village women bestow their sincere gratitude and love and understand that the PINCC teams come to allow women to live healthy and productive lives. I am now on the board, a donor, a fund raiser as well as the medical director for India. Since retiring from my practice, my life revolves around PINCC and I am more fulfilled than I have ever been. This organization is providing a local, sustainable solution to reduce sickness and death from a PREVENTABLE cancer that is the rampant in the developing world. This organization is providing its volunteers with a wealth of happiness and experiences that make our lives better. Consider getting involved as a donor, volunteer, supporter. You will be happy that you did.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
We have helped save hundreds of women's lives already. As we train more providers in more sites we will see decreased deaths of women in the areas we serve.
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How frequently have you been involved with the organization?
About every week
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
May 28, 2010
Working with PINCC, first in Africa, and now twice a year in India is the most amazing and fulfilling work I have ever done! So many women in the slum & village areas of developing countries develop cervical cancer, which is totally preventable and is seldom seen in developed areas where Pap smears are used. The single visit "see & treat" screening process is safe, easy to teach to local doctors, and very effective at preventing the onset of cervical cancer. Perhaps the most wonderful aspect is that we are building the capacity of local health workers to do the screening on a regular basis, and also preparing them to train other health workers, to spread the availability of this remarkable process.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
As Administrator for PINCC India and also as a Board member, I have access to the clinical success results from the screening and treatment process.
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What I've enjoyed the most about my experience with this nonprofit is...
Seeing the screening and training process work so effectively
The kinds of staff and volunteers that I met were...
Really surprised at how fulfilling the work is
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
Eradicate most of the cervical cancer in the world and asve many thousands of lives each year
How frequently have you been involved with the organization?
About every week
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
January 13, 2009
I went with PINCC in 8/08 with absolutely no idea of what i was in for. It was an extrordinary experience and one i will never forget. I went to three major African Countries-Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The people of Africa stay in my mind constantly and feel I have been changed by this experience forever more.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
the training of other health professionals to treat their own people.
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If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
have it more organized.
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What I've enjoyed the most about my experience with this nonprofit is...
is being in culture and meeting people so very different from my own and from me. It taught me humility and it is far better to give then to receive
The kinds of staff and volunteers that I met were...
Doctors, Nurses, Nursing assistants, Midwives
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
Treat far more women!!
Ways to make it better...
If there had been more organization at the other end
In my opinion, the biggest challenges facing this organization are...
Having the people show up at the other end ready to be trained.
One thing I'd also say is that...
Dr. Taylor and Dr Sax are tireless, loving and giving people! They are truly amazing in the amount of training, patience and time they have to give.
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2008
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