Assessment of breast cancer control capacities in the WHO African Region in 2022

Overview

This study assessed breast cancer control capacities in the forty-seven (47) countries of the WHO African region, The main objective was to evaluate countries and regional capacity in leadership, governance, financing, health workforce, health information systems, and service delivery, following the WHO's six building blocks. Another objective was to examine the relationships of countries capacities in those domains with breast cancer mortality rates. A scoring method was developed to summarize survey results into blocks and statistical analyses were performed.