{"id":4460,"date":"2013-10-29T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2015-10-13T13:41:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:41:45","slug":"pink-ribbons-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2013\/10\/29\/pink-ribbons-for-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Ribbons for Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4467\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4467\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shardayyy\/6320766214\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4467\" alt=\"Photo by Shardayyy via flickr.com\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/files\/2013\/10\/pink-ribbon.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Shardayyy via flickr.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>October is breast cancer awareness month in the U.S. Pink ribbons, 5k races, and educational events mark the campaign to educate the public about the disease and push for more research to find a cure. We hold fundraisers and portray survivors as heroes and positive role models. A number of sociologists and other academics have analyzed and critiqued the U.S. breast cancer industry, including <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/10\/11\/boobies-against-breast-cancer\/\">Gayle Sulik<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologylens\/2013\/05\/30\/the-personal-is-political-investigating-the-environmental-breast-cancer-movement\/\">Sabrina McCormick<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/10\/10\/breast-cancer-marketing-has-a-pink-problem\/\">Stefano Puntoni<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In other parts of the world however, breast cancer is silently killing women. For one, the disease still carries a stigma that keeps women from accessing treatment. <i>New York Times<\/i> blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/16\/health\/uganda-fights-stigma-and-poverty-to-take-on-breast-cancer.html?_r=1&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;ref=international-home&amp;adxnnlx=1381939549-bGoHY\/S51s5pEZNoEqaqew&amp;\">Denise Grady discusses<\/a> this stigma towards the disease in developing nations, particularly African countries, as well as the many additional barriers to treatment. These barriers include scarce resources, shame surrounding the disease, corruption, and the real constraints of economic and family responsibilities, all of which make for a deadly combination. Grady states,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Survival rates vary considerably from country to country and even within countries. In the United States, about 20 percent of women who have breast cancer die from it, compared with 40 to 60 percent in poorer countries. The differences depend heavily on the status of women, their awareness of symptoms, and the availability of timely care.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although it is not new knowledge that diseases disproportionately affect poorer countries and individuals, cancer treatment and education has been neglected in developing nations. It has been overshadowed by other diseases like malaria and AIDS, and due to a lack of public awareness on both the national and international scales, it has been underfunded by governments and foundations. <a href=\"http:\/\/pri.org\/stories\/2012-11-16\/cancers-global-reach\">Research from PRI<\/a> indicates that \u201ccancer kills more people in low- and middle-income countries than AIDS, malaria, and TB combined.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October is breast cancer awareness month in the U.S. Pink ribbons, 5k races, and educational events mark the campaign to educate the public about the disease and push for more research to find a cure. We hold fundraisers and portray survivors as heroes and positive role models. A number of sociologists and other academics have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1946,"featured_media":4467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,33,13],"tags":[3840,19075,39113,39110],"class_list":["post-4460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender","category-health","category-inequality","tag-africa","tag-breast-cancer","tag-health","tag-inequality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2013\/10\/pink-ribbon.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4468,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions\/4468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}