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    "id": 788659,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/788659/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mbarire",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": "Today, you are safer to be diagnosed with HIV than cancer in this country. Many people know that once you are told you have cancer, you will die because of the efforts and the kind of treatment we receive here. How do we change that narrative? This Motion is the beginning of that effort. What is more worrying about listening to Hon. Catherine Waruguru is that the leading cancer case is breast cancer. Out of 100,000 women, 34 have breast cancer and 25 have cervical cancer. There is also prostate cancer. Any doctor can tell you that if these cancers are detected early, they can be treated. Therefore, there is need to first declare cancer a national disaster and then scale up our efforts on awareness creation, so that every woman and man across the country may understand the need to go for tests. It is also important to make these tests available at the lowest level of healthcare facility, which is the dispensary. Today, we are doing HIV tests and screening from health facilities at the dispensary level all the way to the national level. We should do the same for cancer, so that every year every woman can go for tests on breast cancer and cervical cancer. It is mandatory that every woman in her reproductive age must be tested at least once per year. We can even go further and make sure that every man gets tested of prostate cancer at least once per year, so that we can detect these diseases early and spend less on their treatment."
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