/tags/cervical-cancer cervical cancer en-US SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ä± Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:48:41 GMT /health/2022-10-11/miamis-little-haiti-joins-global-effort-to-end-cervical-cancer As a first step to early treatment, health workers who speak Haitian Creole are teaching people in Little Haiti how to test themselves for HPV, the virus that causes half of all cervical cancers. Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:48:41 GMT /health/2022-10-11/miamis-little-haiti-joins-global-effort-to-end-cervical-cancer Verónica Zaragovia /news/2022-03-17/the-world-health-organizations-fight-against-cervical-cancer-comes-to-miamis-little-haiti More than 300,000 women around the world die from cervical cancer each year, but the disease is preventable. So the World Health Organization has launched a plan to eradicate the disease. They're working in communities across the world, including right here in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami. Thu, 17 Mar 2022 10:00:00 GMT /news/2022-03-17/the-world-health-organizations-fight-against-cervical-cancer-comes-to-miamis-little-haiti Verónica Zaragovia /education/2019-10-21/fiu-cancer-study-focuses-on-vulnerable-latino-transgender-populations-in-miami-san-juan A team of researchers at Florida International University and two other colleges is hoping to find out what barriers are keeping Latino transgender people… Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:29:50 GMT /education/2019-10-21/fiu-cancer-study-focuses-on-vulnerable-latino-transgender-populations-in-miami-san-juan Jessica Bakeman