Issa Wone
Ziguinchor University, Senegal (West Africa)
Title: Catastrophic expenditures related to anticancer drug supply to patients in Senegal (West Africa)
Biography
Biography: Issa Wone
Abstract
Health systems in developing countries are globally unprepared to address NCDs
In Senegal, the cancer case illustrates these 3 challenges. We studied the ability to pay of 2 workers profiles: the lowest Senegalese official salary, and the minimum wage of a farm worker. We considered 9 types of cancers, based on their frequency, and the availability in the country of relevant chemotherapy: breast, uterine cervix, prostate, colorectal, esophagus, ovary, stomach, lung, ENT, testicle.
Given the financial inaccessibility of cancer chemotherapy in Senegal, measures involving the government, cancer control associations, researchers must be taken to avoid the renunciation to treatments and its subsequent high mortality rate.