'We live in fear because of our skin': Malawians with albinism demand action to reduce cancer risk

Lack of access to sunscreen, diagnosis and treatment is failing a population that is increasingly vulnerable to skin cancer in a heating climate In the early hours of Christmas Eve, William Kumwimbi, a young man with albinism, breathed his last. He had been bedridden with skin cancer for several months. The sad news spread quickly among the community of Kamuzu Central hospital, one of Malawi's biggest hospitals, prompting a battalion of nurses to flood the cancer ward, surrounding the 24-year-ol...