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March 28, 2025 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 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 last,…

27 March 2025 Voices TogetHER is our monthly series shining a light on both people and programs striving tirelessly to inspire, educate and ultimately reach girls and women with information and services to reduce cervical cancer risk among women today, and protect girls in the future.  For March, we’re putting the spotlight on CureCervicalCancer and their groundbreaking Mobile Health for Mamas program in Migori County, Kenya, which TogetHER is proud to support through our Cervical Cancer Grants Program.  Few women in Migori County have access to cervical cancer screening and treatment – forcing many to travel long distances to access…

March 13, 2025 You may notice a new-but-familiar face when you visit our website this month.  As we celebrate both International Women’s Day on March 8th and Women’s History Month throughout the month, 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 this…

27 February 2025 Voices TogetHER is our monthly series shining a light on both people and programs striving tirelessly to inspire, educate and ultimately reach girls and women with information and services to reduce cervical cancer risk among women today, and protect girls in the future.  Our February installment 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.  Our new video focuses on Teal Sisters’ commemoration of World Cancer Day earlier this month with a public event and a…

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. We understand…

On World Cancer Day We Are United by Unique World Cancer Day | UICC Spotlight Piece | New LInkedIn Group Dear Supporter,  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…

January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. Let’s Prioritize Women’s Health. Cervical Cancer Awareness Month | Our New Voices TogetHER Series | Standing For Cervical Cancer Elimination With the Commonwealth | Us vs HPV Week Dear Supporter,  Every January, TogetHER for Health joins our partners in commemorating Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, a time to inform others about the importance of cervical health, celebrate progress towards global cervical cancer elimination, and raise our collective voice to hold decision makers accountable to commitments – or lack thereof – to increase access to the vaccines, screening and early treatment that can save women’s lives…

9 January, 2025 Every January, TogetHER for Health joins our partners in commemorating Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, a time to inform others about the importance of cervical health, celebrate progress towards global cervical cancer elimination, and raise our collective voice to hold decision makers accountable to commitments – or lack thereof – to increase access to the vaccines, screening and early treatment that can save women’s lives from this preventable cancer.  You’ll see a lot of statements this month lead with the dire statistics. In 2022 – the most recent year for which we have data – roughly 660,000 women…

Subscribe to our newsletter here! December 23, 2024 Support Cervical Cancer Elimination with a Year-End Gift Happy Holidays from TogetHER for Health Dear Supporter,  As we approach the end of 2024, we at TogetHER for Health want to express our deep gratitude to our many partners and fellow champions for cervical cancer elimination as we reflect on our work this past year. No matter what form it takes, support for our work is making a difference in the global fight against this preventable killer of women. Our small but mighty team is proud of our accomplishments in 2024, including:  The…

1 December 2024 On World AIDS Day – December 1st – we celebrate the tremendous progress made in the global fight against HIV/AIDS while reflecting on the millions of lives lost and how to ensure access to prevention, testing, and treatment to all in need. It’s also an important day to take stock of progress on global commitments to end HIV/AIDS – which inspired a similar evidence-based global strategy to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem.  The deadly relationship between cervical cancer and HIV/AIDS is well-documented. Women living with HIV are up to six times more likely to…

Subscribe to our newsletter here! World AIDS Day is December 1st – an Important Day for Cervical Cancer Advocates. World AIDS Day | Webinar on December 12 | UICC Grants Winners Dear Supporter,  On World AIDS Day – December 1st – we celebrate the tremendous progress made in the global fight against HIV/AIDS while reflecting on the millions of lives lost and how to ensure access to prevention, testing, and treatment to all in need. It’s also an important day to take stock of progress on global commitments to end HIV/AIDS – which inspired a similar evidence-based global strategy to…

15 November, 2024 On November 17th, 2020, Member States of the World Health Organization approved a Global Strategy to Eliminate Cervical Cancer as a Public Health Problem. The Strategy calls for the global scale-up of three core prevention activities:  The structure of the Strategy can be summarized as providing lifetime protection for today’s girls against cervical cancer later in life, while ensuring that today’s adult women – the great majority of whom are unvaccinated – can access screening and lifesaving treatment services. Achieving these targets is a matter of life-or-death, for far too many. The most recent annual data from…

An Executive Summary of this report is now available. Click here to access. Can Pooled Procurement Mechanisms Get Us Closer to Cervical Cancer Elimination?  September 26, 2024 Cervical cancer elimination is an achievable goal that hinges on getting women access to proven prevention interventions: HPV vaccination, high-performance screening, and timely treatment. But access itself depends heavily on the affordability and the availability of these interventions in a region.  Molecular diagnostics for HPV have proven to be far more accurate than more widespread visual methods such as cytology and visual inspection with acetic acid, while also requiring less frequent screening and…

1 August, 2024 Each time TogetHER for Health launches a Request for Proposals under our Cervical Cancer Grants Program, we are inspired by the breadth and quality of the programs seeking to improve their capacity to provide access to cervical cancer prevention in low- and middle-income countries.  This year, we weren’t just inspired – we were overwhelmed. 288 proposals. Programs in 44 countries. That’s almost five times what we received just last year, an astonishing response that required us to delay our funding decision in order to give each of these submissions the review they deserve, in collaboration with a…

April 11, 2024 Update: We announced the grantees for our 2024-2025 Cervical Cancer Grants Program funding round on August 1st, 2024. Click here to learn more! Recently announced funding commitments and the launch of new partnerships signal new momentum in the effort to end cervical cancer as a global health threat. If applied effectively, these new resources will make a huge difference in implementing lifesaving cervical cancer prevention programs expanding access to HPV vaccination, cervical screening and early treatment for cervical disease. Maximizing the impact of cervical cancer prevention resources – especially in low-resource settings – hinges on deploying newer, more…

March 19, 2024 For TogetHER for Health and others working to make the global elimination of cervical cancer a reality, 2023 represented a year filled with reminders that no single organization will achieve this ambitious goal alone. This spirit of collaboration resulted in exciting developments and the formation of new partnerships and initiatives dedicated to ending this preventable cancer. Learn more in TogetHER’s 2023 Year in Review, summarizing our efforts to change the unacceptable status quo in which far too many women continue to be diagnosed with cervical cancer globally, resulting in 349,000 preventable deaths every year. 2023 saw TogetHER’s…

March 4, 2024 For World AIDS Day 2023, AVAC and TogetHER for Health released a joint call to action urging global leadership in expanding access to HPV vaccination for people living with HIV. Low rates of vaccination put this vulnerable population at enhanced risk for cervical cancer. Today on HPV Awareness Day, 29 organizations have joined our efforts in recognition of these interlinked global health emergencies, calling on global bodies to take overdue action to address unacceptably low rates of HPV vaccination in people living with HIV. International HPV Awareness Day marks an opportunity to raise awareness on the importance of preventing,…