TogetHER for Health Newsletter: February 4th, 2025

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 their strong advocacy for cervical cancer prevention and support for the global effort to end this preventable killer of women everywhere. We understand that every woman lost to cervical cancer has a unique impact on her family, community, and economy. 

As 2025 begins, the world is presenting the already under-resourced global cervical health movement with new obstacles, putting millions of women at unacceptable, unnecessary risk. That won’t deter us from continuing our efforts to save these women’s lives. Read today’s blog post commemorating World Cancer Day for more on how we’re approaching 2025, including some new ways you can participate.

As we say, TogetHER for Health isn’t just the name of our organization – it’s how we end cervical cancer everywhere, forever. That’s why 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.”

TogetHER Featured in UICC Article

As a UICC partner, TogetHER is proud to be a part of the United by Unique campaign. We’re also excited to share a new piece published by UICC profiling our work to accelerate cervical cancer elimination. 

Click here to read this new article discussing some of our key projects, where we are seeing progress in scaling up cervical health programs, and what’s driving persisting disparities in access to HPV vaccination, cervical screening, and preventive treatment.

Thanks to UICC for putting the spotlight on us!

Announcing TogetHER’s New LinkedIn Discussion Group!

From our inception, TogetHER has sought ways to spark dialogue and build connections among people and organizations to strengthen cervical cancer prevention programs in low-resource settings. Sharing information, evidence and best practices in our space is the aim behind our ongoing webinar series, for example. 

This year, we’re trying something new by launching a new LinkedIn discussion group to provide a space for organizations and individuals working in cervical health to ask questions, seek community input and celebrate accomplishments. We expect it to be a dynamic, productive group and look forward to bringing cervical cancer practitioners and advocates together to find ways to move the global elimination agenda forward.

TogetHER for Health will be moderating this group and reserves the right to reject or remove any individuals from participation as well as to moderate the content. We ask participants to be positive, collaborative, and respectful. We also ask that the group not be utilized to solicit funding support.

We hope this is a useful platform for program teams, health care providers, advocates, champions or just anyone looking to understand more about this issue. Please join our page! Click here to sign up.

Early in this newsletter we alluded to obstacles to achieving global cervical cancer elimination. Cervical cancer elimination is our sole focus, but that focus exists in a wider constellation of global health and development. United States investments in global health save lives and make the world a healthier, safer place.

We’re not alone in our concern for the many dedicated civil servants, contractors, and grantees – including many of our close partners – whose lifesaving efforts have been made possible by U.S. support and who now find themselves in, at best, an uncertain situation. The current upheaval at the federal level puts many lives at needless risk, ignoring appropriations for global health programs that have already been signed into law by Congress.

Thanks to all of our partners putting the lives of women and the health of their communities first. Let’s take care of each other in a chaotic time. 

In partnership, 

Heather White

TogetHER for Health
Working together to save women from cervical cancer