| No images? Click here  Monday, 4 March 2024 MEDIA ADVISORY/AVISO DE LOS MEDIOS Opening press conference for the inaugural Global Cervical Cancer Elimination Forum WHEN: Tuesday, 5 March at 16.00 EST (21.00 GMT/22.00 CET) WHAT: In-person press conference in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), opening the inaugural Global cervical cancer elimination forum: advancing the call to action. The Forum, taking place from 5 to 7 March 2024 in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, aims to be a pivotal moment and a historic first step in securing government commitments to eliminate, for the first time ever, a full category of cancer on a global scale. The Governments of Colombia and Spain have partnered with PAHO, WHO, UNICEF, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Unitaid, Global Financing Facility, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, USAID and the World Bank to co-host this milestone forum. See the agenda. WHERE: Training Center of the Spanish Cooperation, Cl. 36 #2-74, El Centro, Cartagena de Indias, Provincia de Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia. To attend in person, please register here to request media credentials. You can also watch the live stream of the opening press conference. If you wish to ask a question, please submit it ahead of the press conference to mediainquiries@who.int with a copy to smailbegovica@who.int SPEAKERS:
********* WHY: A woman dies every two minutes of cervical cancer, an entirely preventable disease. The knowledge, tools, and opportunities exist to prevent and eliminate this form of cancer, the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide, and save millions of lives. WHO’s Global Strategy for Cervical Cancer Elimination, launched on 17 November 2020, lays out a clear path to eliminating the disease through vaccination, screening and treatment. However, access to vaccines, screening and treatment continue to be scarce in the places that need them most. Annual deaths from cervical cancer will likely reach 410,000 by 2030 if we do not change course. The participants in the Forum ( governments, donors, civil society, and others) will announce new and ambitious commitments — financial, policy, and programmatic — to advance the cervical cancer elimination agenda and accelerate the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 3 (health and well-being for all). Further information in this media advisory. ********* AVISO DE LOS MEDIOS: https://www.who.int/es/initiatives/cervical-cancer-elimination-initiative/cervical-cancer-forum ********* Further information:
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Monday, March 4, 2024
MEDIA ADVISORY: Opening press conference for the inaugural Global Cervical Cancer Elimination Forum, Tuesday, 5 March at 16.00 EST (21.00 GMT, 22.00 CET), Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
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