Peru - FHU Nursing

Nursing students and alumni are invited to apply for this incredible opportunity to serve and grow their skills in Cusco, Peru with CerviCusco. For more information about the CerviCusco program, visit www.cervicusco.org.

Please email completed application to fhuabroad@fhu.edu in order to apply.

Trip Application

About the Trip

CerviCusco is a Peruvian non-profit (NGO) medical center of excellence that is comprehensively addressing cervical and breast cancer in indigenous communities in the outlying mountain region. CerviCusco’s primary goal is to reduce the high rate of cervical and breast cancer in the Andes Mountains region of Peru. They also provide other women’s healthcare services, general medicine, infectious disease, psychology, and family medicine.

The Cusco Region of Peru has one of the world’s highest rates of cervical cancer, over 10 times the rate in the United States. Preventive or early detection healthcare options are quite limited, and there currently exist few opportunities for women to get access to proper and timely cervical cancer diagnosis and treatment.

As very few indigenous women have access to high quality medical care, cervical and breast cancers are typically detected at a late stage when the prognosis is poor. CerviCusco is focused on assisting these most vulnerable women who do not have financial resources, but are most at risk for cervical and breast cancer. CerviCusco helps prevent cervical cancer and detect early breast cancer before it progresses, providing many of these women an opportunity to survive and live healthy lives.