Virtual Dialogue: Implementing 70:90 – Ensuring scale and sustainability

Held in partnership with Jhpiego, this Virtual Dialogue focused on the key issues involved in ensuring that the 70:90 targets can be achieved nationally in countries and sustained for the years that follow. Financing is one of the critical enablers highlighted in the Global Strategy for cervical cancer elimination. With initial significant investments from key donors and funders following the call to action of the WHO Director General in 2018, and recent announcements from the Global Forum on the elimination of cervical cancer held in Colombia, this Virtual Dialogue showcased success stories, inspire action and discuss barriers to financing cervical cancer elimination.

This Virtual Dialogue brought together both national level stakeholders, as well as key global health actors and donors to explore their role in driving future progress. It highlighted national efforts made to support domestic financing and showcase examples of scale-up that are paving the way towards sustainability. It also highlighted strategies to enhance market access, addressing issues in procurement and pricing, and share a preview on how global funders are working towards sustainability of access to screening and treatment of cervical cancer in the coming years.

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 Speakers

Introduction and welcome

• Dr Kirstie Graham, Director, Capacity Building, UICC
• Debora Bossemeyer, Senior Vice President Global Programs and Technical Leadership, Jhpiego

Panel 1 - Success stories in scale-up and sustainability

Moderator: Professor Blami Dao, Technical Director, West and Central Africa, Jhpiego

• Vincent Sumergido, Supervising Health Program Officer, Deputy to DOH Cancer Control Division Head, Department of Health of the Philippines
• Dr Claudia Camel, National Programme of Reproductive Health, Ministry of Health and Social Assistance of Guatemala

Panel 2 - Supporting sustainability: insights from global institutions 

Moderator: Dr Somesh Kumar, Senior Director, Technical Leadership & Innovation, and Country Director India, Jhpiego

• Christopher Lim, Chief, Strategic Fund at World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization
• Dr Michelle Chevalier, Senior Advisor for Women's Health, Bureau of Global Heath Security & Diplomacy (GHSD) PEPFAR, US Department of State
• Smiljka de Lussigny, Programme Manager, Diagnostics and cervical cancer, UNITAID

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