Originally posted to LinkedIn. When we incorporated Ananya Health in 2020, our goal was clear. Cervical cancer is highly preventable and has been for decades, but early intervention doesn’t reach most of the women who need it. We built Ananya Health to close that gap and bring cervical precancer treatment to more women. Before we started building the device, we had to decide what kind of company we would be. We wanted a structure that would protect our commitment to access as

Originally posted to LinkedIn. At a clinic in Chicago, it’s usually an Ob-Gyn who treats cervical precancer (when abnormal cells appear on the surface of the opening of the uterus). In Kenya, where there are approximately 500 Ob-Gyns in the entire country, a nurse or midwife treats it, if it gets treated at all. At Ananya Health, we’re building one device for both of them. Sounds simple, right? Unfortunately, in almost every standard treatment for cervical precancer, the tool

Originally posted to LinkedIn. Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable and treatable cancers there is. But by the World Health Organization's (WHO) count, around 350,000 women still die of it every year, making it the fourth-most lethal cancer for women worldwide. The unacceptable distance between those two facts is why we founded Ananya Health six years ago today. Cervical cancer is not a disease that’s waiting for a cure. We understand the root causes and can prevent