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A WORLD WITHOUT CERVICAL CANCER DEATHS IS POSSIBLE.
The knowledge and technology exist to eliminate cervical cancer with effective, low-cost tools, even in the poorest parts of the world. TogetHER is a global partnership ensuring the elimination of cervical cancer through advocacy, partnership, and knowledge-sharing, enabling equitable access to effective prevention and care.
The newest installment in our monthly Voices TogetHER storytelling series features CureCervicalCancer, who are revolutionizing cervical cancer prevention in hard-to-reach areas with their Mobile Health for Mamas program.
This mobile clinic approach brings screening and treatment services to women through trusted community health promoters and offers women the option of self-collection for HPV DNA testing. In just a few short years, the Mobile Health for Mamas program has tested almost 40,000 women, 75% of whom had never been screened before. The program also provided almost 7,500 women with safe, effective treatment for precancerous lesions.
Check out our new video to meet a few of the dedicated health practitioners and advocates making Mobile Health for Mamas possible, as well as women who have benefited from this fantastic program.
After just months of turmoil in global and women’s health in 2025, much of the work we at TogetHER for Health had undertaken in 2024 feels like it took place forever ago.
Amidst the chaos, though, we remain inspired by our vision: a world without cervical cancer deaths.
Click here to revisit our work in 2024. We hope within this summary you’ll find on display the values TogetHER and our partners strive to embody: determination, partnership, and above all, a focus on safeguarding the health of every woman and girl. In this year as well as every other, those values are core to our advocacy, to our support for innovative programs, and to the stories we tell to put a human face on this preventable disease.
As we celebrate both International Women’s Day on March 8th and Women’s History Month throughout March, we take inspiration from the timeless imagery of “Rosie the Riveter,” a symbol of the significant contributions women made to the United States’ wartime effort on the home front during World War II. Rosie’s fierce determination in the face of uncertainty and challenge feels like an appropriate image to share as we contemplate our own global battle against cervical cancer deaths.
We look forward to using our new Rosie image throughout the year as a striking reminder to sustain our collective fight against this preventable cancer, and we invite you to do the same. The image has space for you to place your own logo. Please use it and share with others! Together, we CAN do it!
Since the launch of the WHO's global cervical cancer elimination strategy, HPV vaccination efforts have made remarkable strides in expanding access thanks to significant political and financial support. Unfortunately, that same level of support has eluded the other two key cervical cancer elimination pillars: screening and treatment. If screening and treatment programs don’t receive similar commitment as vaccination, millions of women today bear unacceptable risk for a preventable disease.
This new report - published by TogetHER in partnership with the Commonwealth Secretariat with support from Roche Diagnostics - lays out the case for increasing investments toward a holistic approach to global cervical health, with a focus on high-performance cervical cancer diagnostics such as HPV viral testing, providing case studies on successful implementation of programs in low-resource settings. It also highlights the importance of strengthening health systems and of building awareness of cervical cancer and cervical cancer prevention.
