A pink truck called Pfukani: same-day cervical screening reaches rural South Africa

In Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, a bright pink, solar-powered mobile clinic is doing something that used to take weeks: screening for HPV, the virus behind most cervical cancer, with results in about an hour — and same-day treatment when early cell changes are found. Doctors Vincent Shongwe and Martin Namane staff the Pfukani Mobile Clinic, part of a national vaccination and screening effort that health writers say is set to cut cervical cancer sharply in the decades ahead.