Morning Briefing

This VOA News editorial examines how a public-private partnership between PEPFAR, the George W. Bush Institute, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, as well as private sector partners will launch a program called Pink Ribbon, Red Ribbon to "combat cervical and breast cancer for women in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America." "In the developing world, women's cancers are often neglected and associated with stigma that discourages women from seeing a doctor," VOA writes. The editorial quotes Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton who said, "If we want to make progress on some of the toughest challenges we face in global health -- fighting HIV, preventing childhood deaths, improving nutrition, stopping malaria, and more -- then investing in women must be at the top of the agenda" (10/11).