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21 August, 2025 Cervical cancer’s global burden is heavily weighted towards Asia, which currently accounts for approximately 3 out of every 5 new global cases and deaths. Several APAC region countries – Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines – have developed national strategies to eliminate this preventable cancer, aligned with the targets ratified by member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2020.  However, Vietnam is lagging behind its neighbors, putting Vietnamese women’s cervical health at heightened risk. Current HPV vaccination coverage in Vietnam is estimated at only 12.5% of females ages 15-29, and only 30% of eligible women…

21 August, 2025 TogetHER for Health launched our Cervical Cancer Grants Program in 2019, tapping into the quality and innovations of programs in low- and middle-income countries to show what works to save women’s lives. That year we received about 25 proposals and were pleased to provide grants to Fundación Movicancer and Jhpiego Botswana supporting improved uptake of vaccination, cervical cancer screening, and preventive treatment in their communities.  This initiative has grown immensely since then. This year, our Request for Proposals garnered an astounding 365 proposals from 60 countries. The process of reviewing submissions from hundreds of worthy organizations was…

July 31, 2025 TogetHER for Health is dedicated to accelerating the end of cervical cancer everywhere. We have focused our advocacy and outreach efforts on addressing global disparities in access to HPV vaccination, cervical cancer screening, and preventive treatment. The availability of these life-saving  interventions is most limited in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), in which nine out of every ten global cervical cancer deaths occur.  Cervical cancer has always been a disease of unacceptable inequity, but the global landscape has seen a profound change, prompting TogetHER to alter our approach to engaging policymakers about cervical cancer prevention abroad, as…

July 31, 2025 Our Voices TogetHER series puts a focus on the people and organizations working to make cervical cancer elimination a reality.  This entry features a member of TogetHER’s member network, Grounds for Health, who have been implementing cervical health programs in coffee-growing regions of the world since 1996. Currently, Grounds for Health is coordinating cervical screening projects in Ethiopia and in Kenya.  Grounds for Health is playing a leading role in transitioning cervical cancer screening programs from visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) to HPV testing, which is more accurate, more scalable, and most importantly, more acceptable for…

June 30, 2025 Our Voices TogetHER series puts a focus on the people and perspectives working to make cervical cancer elimination a reality.  This entry features our partners at Slum and Rural Health Initiative (SRHI), one of our 2024-2025 awardees under our Cervical Cancer Grants Program. Their youth-designed and youth-led project is driving increased uptake of HPV vaccination in Lagos State, Nigeria. SRHI provided us with a great video featuring their Youth for HPV champions. They also enlisted one of those champions – Mfonobong Ebenezer – to blog about her experience as a cervical health advocate in Lagos. Thanks to…

May 1, 2025 Our Voices TogetHER series puts a focus on the people and perspectives working to make cervical cancer elimination a reality.  Moonshine Agency has been telling the stories behind the global cervical health movement to widespread acclaim via the powerful Conquering Cancer series, adding to their impressive roster of impactful films. In our newest Voices TogetHER entry, we turned the cameras around on Moonshine Agency’s Sue Collins and Mike Hill and asked them to tell us a little more of their own story.  Watch the video below to hear from Mike and Sue about how they entered the…

23 April, 2025 Kathy Vizas, TogetHER’s Co-Founder And Chief Strategy Officer, and I were honored to represent TogetHER for Health join some of the world’s most inspiring social impact leaders, philanthropists and innovators at 2025 Skoll World Forum which took place in Oxford, England April 1-4. Each year, Skoll brings together some of the world’s foremost thought leaders (and DO’ers!) who are driving social change on critical global issues such as health, education, climate resilience, indigenous rights and other issues of our time. We participated in several events, including co-hosting a panel with the Sidebar, the brainchild of  our friend…

24 April, 2025 As of 6:00 pm US Eastern Time on Friday, May 30th, 2025, TogetHER is no longer accepting submissions to our Cervical Cancer Grants Program. Note that we do not accept applications via email, and we do not offer extensions on this deadline. Thanks to all who have applied. We look forward to announcing the awardees in August of 2025. To be informed about future calls for funding, subscribe to our newsletter here. TogetHER’s Cervical Cancer Grants Program aims to provide small, highly targeted grants addressing demand and supply barriers that prevent access to life-saving cervical cancer prevention services in…

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…