Why Is Cervical Cancer Killing So Many Black Women in the South?
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Ms. Frances Ford, executive director of Sowing Seeds of Hope, in her home in August 2018, holding a picture of her mother, who died from cervical cancer after being diagnosed in 1980.
( 2018 Roopa Gogineni for Human Rights Watch )
( 2018 Roopa Gogineni for Human Rights Watch )