Ratibu Asiligwa, 10, with his mother Jackline Kabeye, 33, at the Kawempe facility, receives chemotherapy and takes morphine to alleviate the pain from his rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer of skeletal muscle cells. Even as drug treatments get cheaper and more accessible, experts warn that progress against cancer in Africa will be slow.
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