Following the call from the WHO Director General in 2018, in August 2020, the World Health Assembly passed a resolution calling for elimination of cervical cancer and adopting a strategy to make it happen.
The Global Strategy outlines the following threshold: we will have eliminated cervical cancer as a public health problem when all countries reach an incidence rate of less than 4 cases per 100 000 women. This should happen within the lifetime of today’s young girls.
It has three main pillars: prevent, screen and treat, that capture a comprehensive approach that includes prevention, effective screening and treatment of pre-cancerous lesions, early cancer diagnosis and programmes for the management of invasive cancer.
Impact
311 000 women
died in 2018
from cervical cancer, more than 85% of these deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries.
To reach elimination, efforts must be aligned and accelerated
Every country must reach the following global targets by 2030:
90% coverage of HPV Vaccination of girls (by 15 years of age)
70% coverage of screening (70% of women are screened with high-performance tests by the ages of 35 and 45 years)
90% treatment of precancerous lesions and Management of 90% of invasive cancer cases
Technical Documents
Analysis of the situation of cervical cancer in the Region of the Americas (in Spanish)
Executive summary (in English)
Videos
Cervical Cancer screening and treatment:
Cervical Cancer vaccine:
Cervical Cancer elimination:
Women and girls - It´s time to end cervical cancer
Girls in Tarija receive the HPV vaccine
Health Professionals—It's time to end cervical cancer
The Ministry of Health of Guatemala, commited to cervical cancer elimination
Campaign Materials
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LAUNCH EVENTS - 17 November, 2020
Regional Launch of the Global Strategy for Cervical Cancer Elimination in the Americas