AJCR Briefing
Reporting and notes on cancer research, people and institutions across Africa.
Behind the paper
The authors of AJCR's Lusaka trial on how a clinic-based model moved palliative review from the end of the pathway to the second week, and what a synthetic dataset can and cannot show.
Conversation
A registry is only as good as the records it can join up. The lead author of AJCR's Addis Ababa linkage study on duplicates, missing deaths and why a person still checks the uncertain matches.
Profile
A breast cancer researcher at the University of Cape Town on why tumour profiles from African patients change what clinicians can act on, and why she also works on registries.
Explainer
Algorithms that read digitised slides are moving from research into hospitals. A short guide to what they need, where they help and where caution is due.
This is a test note for the Observatory. It links to Malawi, a country where AJCR has not yet published research, to check that the story appears on Malawi in the Observatory.
According to WHO/UNICEF estimates, the share of girls in Malawi who had a first dose of HPV vaccine by age 15 rose from 51% in 2022 to 82% in 2025.
Every country, institution and researcher in the Research Observatory can now be opened directly from a link, such as the University of Rwanda. Briefing uses these links: when a story names a researcher or institution in the journal's records, the name opens its place in the Observatory, and the story lists it under "In this story".
Sample note for website testing.
WHO's global strategy to accelerate the elimination of cervical cancer, launched in 2020, sets three targets for 2030: 90% of girls fully vaccinated against HPV by age 15, 70% of women screened with a high-performance test by 35 and again by 45, and 90% of women identified with cervical disease receiving treatment. AJCR's sample issue includes a synthetic study of HPV self-sampling in Ibadan, one of the approaches services are testing to reach the screening target.
Sample note for website testing.
Profiles, conversations, explainers and short notes now sit alongside journal news.
AJCR's inaugural issue is online, with two opening letters and twelve synthetic research articles from authors in twelve African countries.
