Researchers at Aga Khan University—a Pakistan-based university with campuses around East Africa—have received funding for research on human papillomavirus, a virus which can cause cervical cancer.
The money comes from the Fogarty International Centre in the United States and will be used to finds ways of tackling cervical cancer, which in 2014 killed 4800 Kenyan women.
The project will be carried out by the AKU’s Centre for Excellence in Women and Child Health, a branch of which is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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