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03 February 2016

Every Woman Every Child Toolkit World Cancer Day 2016

“Towards a Cervical Cancer Free World”

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On 4 February, the international community will rally around World Cancer Day – an annual day to raise awareness about cancer and promote ways to ease its growing global burden. While there is no way to prevent all cancers, many cancers can be prevented through screening, diagnosis and preventive treatment.

This year the Every Woman Every Child movement will seek to highlight the devastating impact of cervical cancer, an almost always preventable cancer caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Cervical cancer is a leading cause of death among women, in low- and low-middle income countries.

Since the Secretary-General launched the Every Woman Every Child movement in 2010, there has been unprecedented progress in reducing the deaths of women and children around the world. However, women, children and adolescents continue to die from mainly preventable causes. As the world transitions to a new development era, there is renewed commitment under the recently launched Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health to accelerate progress made to date and address broader health needs, including the global response to cervical cancer.

In late 2015, the Cervical Cancer Action (CCA) initiative came together to launch a five-year effort, “Taking Cervical Cancer Prevention to Scale: Protecting All Women and Girls.” And this year, the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), is launching a three-year campaign under the theme “We Can. I Can.” to mobilize individual and collective efforts to reduce the global burden of cancer. 

Download the following documents for more information and visit http://www.everywomaneverychild.org.

Every Woman Every Child WCD2016 Toolkit (PDF)
UN Secretary General Statement about World Cancer Day 2016 (PDF)

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