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In the lead-up to this month’s International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD+25), TogetHER and partners offered an exciting convening in Washington, DC on accelerating the integration of cervical cancer prevention and family planning services.
More...TogetHER applauds the World Health Organization’s publication today of new guidelines on thermal ablation for treating precancerous lesions.
More...TogetHER has published a new policy brief highlighting the shortfall in current resources for cervical cancer prevention.
More...TogetHER and our partner organizations were honored to receive a very encouraging and almost immediate response to the letter we sent to newly appointed UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima, in which we offered congratulations and urged her to include cervical cancer prevention among the priorities for her tenure.
More...TogetHER announced our first awards under the Cervical Cancer Grants Program, providing small, highly-targeted grants to strengthen adoption of cervical cancer primary and secondary prevention technologies by generating evidence that speeds wider product access and uptake.
More...TogetHER has launched an initiative to highlight successful cervical cancer prevention programs by making case studies available on our website.
More...The New York Times published an opinion piece describing a Guatemalan woman’s struggle with cervical cancer, and using her story to frame the issue worldwide.
More...Experts, advocates, frontline health workers and implementers gathered at the Women Deliver side event “Not Without a Cervix! Advocating for an Effective Cervical Cancer Response.”
More...TogetHER’s Executive Director, Celina Schocken, gave remarks to U.S. government representatives preparing to participate in the World Health Assembly.
More...During World Immunization Week—April 24-30, 2019—TogetHER for Health celebrated the lifesaving vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer.
More...TogetHER for Health has launched a new Cervical Cancer Grants Program to address barriers to access, and strengthen and speed the adoption of cervical cancer prevention technologies.
More...A new thermal coagulator device has transformed cervical cancer treatment at the Mctoone Cancer Care Foundation in Kumasi, Ghana.
More...Learn about a groundbreaking study by Global Good, the National Cancer Institute and the National Library of Medicine that found AVE can visually recognize cervical pre-cancerous lesions better than a human expert.
More...“This is a story about my best friend’s mother and my mother’s best friend. One died from cervical cancer. One survived. They lived in the same rural Kenyan village where I grew up.” (Reposted from the Global Health NOW blog)
More...Big global gains against cervical cancer are possible with sustained attention and investment, and gains are urgently needed. (Reposted from the Panorama Global blog)
More...Take a look at what we accomplished in our first year, and our evaluation of the state of the global cervical cancer field.
More...TogetHER joined HIV and AIDS activists worldwide to commemorate the 30th annual World AIDS Day. Cervical cancer is one of the main causes of death for women living with HIV.
More...Program ROSE successfully improved cervical cancer screening rates and reduced the burden of cervical cancer in Malaysia.
More...Synergies between the AIDS and cervical cancer responses can protect major investments in HIV/AIDS, since HIV-positive women are at particular risk for developing cervical cancer. (From UNAIDS’ website)
More...On the eve of the 3rd United Nations High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD), a panel of international experts spotlighted cervical cancer, which is one NCD that could be eliminated as a public health problem by scaling up access to the tools already available.
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