👏Powerful messages at #WD2023 from Sally Agallo from @NCDAK encouraging women to get screened for cervical #cancer! Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance & Gates Foundation support 86 mm girls to access HPV vaccines by 2025 but we all have a part to play to ensure the funding creates the impact💪

“Cervical cancer is a loud example of gender, health and social inequity and injustice that exists in the world today. Yet it is the one cancer that we can eliminate. We must join hands to muster more political will, strong policies, more funding and increase awareness.” - UICC

Honoured to speak at the Women Deliver Side Event with @UICC and Gates Foundation about our goal to reach over 86 million girls with the lifesaving #HPV vaccine by 2025, preventing over 1.4 million future deaths from #cervicalcancer. #WD2023

Yesterday in Kigali, Rwanda at #WD2023 to co-host a side event on engaging communities for #HPV vaccination as a key tool in the elimination of #cervicalcancer, with Gates Foundation and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

A heartfelt thank you to our co-hosts, panellists and participants. An insightful discussion on the need to engage communities for #HPV vaccination as a means of working towards the elimination of #cervicalcancer. Gates Foundation Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance #WD2023

J’ai été ravie de participer le 18 au nom de Médecins du Monde à ce panel de Union for International #CancerControl sur «  un avenir sans cancer du col de l’utérus » pour participer l’approche de promotion de l’équité de genre en santé par MDM dans 02 projets #cancerducoldeluterus au #Burkina et en #cotedivoire

Women with #HIV are 6X more likely to be infected with #HPV and develop cervical cancer. I salute Salome, for sharing her lives experience with us. Hers, is a story of heartbreak, loss, pain. It is also a story of courage, action and victory. #cervicalcancerelimination #WD2023

As a side event of the Women Deliver 2023 conference, Union for International #CancerControl, Gates Foundation, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance joined forces to discuss cervical cancer: "A Future Without Cervical Cancer: Engaging Communities for HPV Vaccination." H.E Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu chaired the event, emphasizing the path to eradication

#WD2023 | The SUCCESS team had the opportunity to present the screening activities carried out in 4 countries to fight against cervical cancer.

Demonstration of self sampling in Guatemala at the 2023 Women Deliver Conference! Youth Deliver First Ladies Against Cancer (FLAC) Ask About HPV NCCC MENA Coalition for HPV Elimination IPVS - International Papillomavirus Society Union for International #CancerControl Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu

Creativity is a key when it comes to sensitization and awareness raising for #cervicalcancer screening. The #SUCCESSproject team had the opportunity to demonstrate some of the tools developed to teach women how to do self sampling for HPV testing at Women Deliver

Kebbi state is also running a Unitaid funded screen and treat program on cervical cancer. My foundation, MedicaidCFPrograms is responsible for demand generation. Thus, I attended this session Women Deliver to learn and share from 4 other beneficiaries. My conversation with

Cervical cancer is a loud example of gender, health and social inequity - UICC Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu #cancer #awareness #cervicalcancer #rwanda #socialinequity #UICC #vaccination #oncology #oncodaily oncodaily.com/blog/3126.html

Mark your calendars! On September 6th we will be co-hosting an event with PATH Women Advocates for Vaccine Access RFSU and Gavi CSO Constituency on how to ensure equitable access to the #HPV vaccine through gender responsive and youth-led approaches. Register here: bit.ly/47SxA1Y

Cancer is a leading cause of mortality in women. A new The Lancet Commission suggests unequal power dynamics across society have resounding negative impacts on how women interact with cancer prevention, care, and treatment. More: hubs.li/Q023vSL30

🔴 Panel discussion at #BladderCancerForum23 ➡️ Addressing patients needs in practice. 💡Learning what’s gaps have been identified in their national countries and how they have dealt with them when it comes to #bladdercancer

New insights from a UICC study underscore the pivotal role of cancer civil society in low- and middle-income countries towards achieving the 90% target for HPV vaccination and eliminating #cervicalcancer. bit.ly/3uaTQVu

As part of its focus on women’s cancers, specifically in supporting the implementation of the WHO Global Strategy for the elimination of cervical cancer, UICC engaged in a situational analysis of civil society organisations’ (CSOs) role in increasing access to, and uptake of HPV

See you tomorrow @NCIGlobalHealth NCI Cancer Control Pallium India @paimadhu Dr Matshidiso Moeti Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Muzukulu wa Bityo The Cicely Saunders Society Leslie Blackhall NIH Union for International #CancerControl Anthropologie American Anthropological Association Anthony Herbert @acreol_org

Despite the miserable war, restrictions, closures +more Patient's Friends Society-Jerusalem continues raising awareness, provides education +support. YOUR support is gratefully appreciated to continue this essential work #cancer #CloseTheCareGap Union for International #CancerControl #worldcancerday #savealife