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International Cancer Control Partnership (ICCP)
The Campaign
A campaign directly aligned with global advocacy
In 2008, UICC developed the World Cancer Declaration as a tool to help bring the growing cancer crisis to the attention of government leaders and health policymakers.
The 9 Declaration targets, designed to significantly reduce the global cancer burden by 2020, have served as the basis for UICC recommendations to the World Health Organization (WHO). The Declaration, with more than 500,000 signatories, has also been instrumental in generating political will for cancer control targets both at UN and grassroots levels.
The 9 Declaration targets provide the strategic direction for the World Cancer Day campaign.
Action for impact
"I believe World Cancer Day is an inclusive platform for voices from all corners of the world including the remotest areas. Cancer Foundation of India as a team felt empowered raising the collective concern to address cancer prevention. Hopefully next year we will come back bigger and better."
“World Cancer Day has given us the wonderful opportunity, to join forces with other related NGO’s locally and bring forward important messages about prevention, early detection as well as our valuable work in palliative care. We hope to continue this annual institution in order to raise more and more awareness of these very important issues around cancer”.
Responds to the following Declaration Target(s):
Last update:
Thursday 28 February 2019
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