She’s headed to a cervical cancer screening clinic that’s been set up in her village for the day. In Guatemala, cervical cancer is a stealth predator. The World Health Organization’s 2021 cervical cancer country profile for Guatemala reported 872 cervical cancer deaths in 2019 and suggested that this number has remained relatively stable in recent years. The team collaboratively operates several mobile reproductive health and cervical cancer screening clinics in rural, underserved Guatemala communities every year. “Guatemala has one of the lowest nurse-patient ratios in the world, and the public health care system is chronically underfunded and understaffed,” he says.