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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.
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!
The newest installment in our monthly Voices TogetHER storytelling series features our partners at Teal Sisters Foundation, an organization founded by Zambian cervical cancer survivor, Karen Nakawala, to build a movement to eliminate cervical cancer in the country and globally.
Teal Sisters’ commemoration of World Cancer Day earlier this month included a public event and a school-based HPV vaccination campaign, a great encapsulation of Teal Sisters’ holistic response to cervical cancer prevention – ensuring that adult women are informed about HPV and its link to cervical cancer and other HPV-related cancers, and providing screening and treatment services for adults while simultaneously offering HPV vaccination for Zambian girls.
February 4th is World Cancer Day, an annual campaign organized by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to raise awareness about cancer, encourage its prevention, and mobilize action to address the global cancer epidemic. February 2025 marks UICC’s launch of a three-year campaign called “United by Unique,” which seeks to place people at the center of care and their stories at the heart of the conversation.
TogetHER is proud to partner with UICC, and we’re grateful for their strong advocacy for cervical cancer prevention and support for the global effort to end this preventable killer of women everywhere. Read our blog post commemorating World Cancer Day for more on how we’re approaching 2025, including some new ways you can participate.
To end cervical cancer, we need each of our partners and dedicated individuals from across the world to bring their distinct talents and experiences to the fight. This World Cancer Day provides an excellent reminder that we are all indeed “united by unique.”
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.
