Strategic Campaigns
Our strategic campaigns focus on priority areas where urgent action is needed to improve cancer prevention, early detection, treatment, and survivorship.
What is Cancer Advocacy?
Advocacy is about influencing decisions that shape political, economic, and social systems. In health, it means protecting patients’ rights and remembering that access to safe, quality care is a matter of social justice. The Cancer Alliance takes a human rights–based approach to cancer care.
WHAT’S ON THE TABLE
Cervical Cancer
We have the science, we need the political will.
Cervical Cancer is a global public health problem, yet one of the few cancers and the only female reproductive cancer that can be prevented through the HPV vaccine, given prior to sexual debut, and if detected early through cervical screening, the disease can be treated and cured.
Globally, every 2 minutes, 9 women are dying of cervical cancer. Approximately 604 000 new cases and 342 000 deaths are reported annually. In Sub-Saharan Africa we have one women dying every 72 minutes.
In South Africa approximately 10 000 new cases and 5 800 deaths are recorded per annum. The burden of the disease has major implications on the physical, psychological, and socio-economic status of the affected women, her family, the community, and an increased workload on the health system.
Solution Labs: Cervical Cancer
Cervical Cancer
Report
The elimination of cervical cancer is a public health, political, economic and social imperative. Currently the rights of girls and women are being violated, because they are at risk of being exposed, becoming ill and dying of a preventative disease. We call for a dedicated Elimination Strategy for South Africa that will guide the future of equitable cervical cancer care for all.
