Address at the Cancer Care in Africa Charity Dinner

"Fighting cancer is not a single process. It requires application of a broad range of approaches to its prevention, treatment, and care. This in turn, must be managed by highly trained, committed teams and professionals underpinned with a strong political will to commit the required resources. Indeed, fighting cancer is costly. It attracts little attention as a health problem in the poorest, heavily indebted countries, particularly in Africa, which are forced to focus all the available resources on meeting grassroots problems of water, education, poverty alleviation to say nothing of the major pandemics that continue to afflict the continent and decimate its people." - Dr. Salim, May 24, 2003