Community-based researcher Barbara Brooks of Leland (left), Candrese Jones (second left), a community-based researcher from Boyle, Oleta Garrett Fitzgerald, Southern Rural Black Women's Initiative for Economic and Social Justice regional administrator (center), Latoya Lowe, a community-based researcher from Belzoni, and Leland resident Stacey Wiggins, during a panel discussions regarding cervical cancer on women in the Delta, the lack of care and the impact of racism regarding that care, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, at the Jackson Medical Mall. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
“It is a cancer that is preventable and highly treatable if people have access to the right kind of medical professionals and screenings and the HPV vaccination.”
Systemic failures have led Black women in the Mississippi Delta to have disproportionately high death rates from cervical cancer, a new report concludes.
