Women Deliver - side event

Welcome remarks and introductions by H.E Dr. Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu, UICC Board Member 

Welcome words from co-host organisations: Building bridges across communities to drive progress towards the cervical cancer elimination targets. 

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – Rachel Toku-Appiah, Director, Policy, Advocacy and Communications for Africa
• Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance – Aurélia Nguyen, Chief Programme Strategy Officer (video)

Panel
Each speaker highlights key opportunities for collaboration across global health, cancer and gender communities for leveraging recent commitments and key changes. 

Moderation: H.E. Dr. Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu, UICC Board member

• Reaching the 90% targets: the Rwandan experience – François Uwinkindi, Manager of NCDs Division, Rwanda Biomedical Centre, Ministry of Health
• The equity imperative: Opportunities for building bridges across gender and health communities in advocating for cervical cancer elimination: Cécile Thiombiano.  Advocacy Coordinator on SRHR for Africa, Médecins du Monde France
• Innovative interventions to engage girls in leading change for HPV vaccination: Jessica Posner Odede. CEO, Girl Effect 
• How the single dose is a paradigm shift for implementing HPV vaccination programmes, Lucy Kiarie, Regional Director Immunisation, Jhpiego
• The importance of the lived experience: Cervical cancer and HIV survivor: Salomé Agallo, Kenya
• Women’s engagement for the elimination objective: Representative of Women in Global Health, Rukaya Mumuni, Registered Nurse, Ghana

12:30
12:50

Open forum discussion: Engaging key communities for HPV vaccination

The audience will be able to engage directly through an interactive online tool to input on the suggested questions below: 

• Are you engaging in cervical cancer elimination? What kind of activities?
• Practically, how or in which area of your work do you see opportunities to work together and collaborate to increase uptake of the HPV vaccination? 
• What action or support is needed to drive this collective action and increase access to and uptake of HPV vaccination? 

Conclusions and networking time

Take a photo with the Frame for the Global Declaration to Eliminate Cervical Cancer