{"entity":{"id":"car-ministry-of-health","kind":"institution","name":"Ministère de la Santé et de la Population, République centrafricaine","aka":["Ministry of Health and Population, Central African Republic","Ministry of Public Health and Population, CAR"],"tldr":"The Central African Republic's health ministry. A 2021 international review it requested found no national cancer programme, no population cancer registry and no radiotherapy in the country.","summary":"At the ministry's request, the IAEA, WHO's African regional office and IARC carried out an imPACT review from September 2020 to March 2021. Its summary found a plan for non-communicable diseases (2015 to 2021) but no national cancer control programme, no population-based cancer registry (data come from the country's pathology laboratory and the oncology departments of Bangui hospitals), no HPV vaccination, two medical and two paediatric oncologists, chemotherapy given in a paediatric department with families paying, no radiotherapy and no morphine. It recommended a cancer registry, a medical oncology department at the Hôpital Communautaire or the national teaching hospital, and an autonomous paediatric oncology service at the paediatric teaching hospital. The coordinates are an approximate Bangui city point.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"IAEA imPACT review summary, Central African Republic (2021, PDF)","url":"https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/documents/review-missions/impact-mission-to-central-african-rep-march-2021.pdf"},{"label":"Ministère de la Santé et de la Population, République centrafricaine","url":"https://www.sante.gouv.cf/"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["chu-pediatrique-bangui","cnhu-bangui","iaea","iarc"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Bangui","country":"CF","lat":4.364,"lng":18.584,"institutionType":"government","website":"https://www.sante.gouv.cf/","programs":["Non-communicable disease plan 2015 to 2021","imPACT review (2020 to 2021)"]},"route":"/institutions/car-ministry-of-health/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"chu-pediatrique-bangui","kind":"institution","name":"Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pédiatrique de Bangui (CHUPB)","route":"/institutions/chu-pediatrique-bangui/"},{"id":"cnhu-bangui","kind":"institution","name":"Centre National Hospitalier Universitaire de Bangui (CNHUB)","route":"/institutions/cnhu-bangui/"},{"id":"iarc","kind":"institution","name":"International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO)","route":"/institutions/iarc/"},{"id":"iaea","kind":"institution","name":"International Atomic Energy Agency: Rays of Hope","route":"/institutions/iaea/"}]}}