A Global Strategy for elimination of cervical cancer

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

Globally in 2022, 
661,021 new cases
and 
348,189 women 
died from cervical cancer

More than 85% of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.

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To reach elimination, efforts must be aligned and accelerated

Every country must reach the following global targets by 2030:

 

icon of a syringe inside a circle with 90% of the circumference in pink and 10% in soft greyy

 90% coverage of HPV Vaccination of girls (by 15 years of age)

Icon of a microscope inside a circle, the exterior circumference is 70% pink and 30% grey

70% coverage of screening (70% of women are screened with high-performance tests by the ages of 35 and 45 years) 

Icon of a woman with her arms crossed over her lap, inside a circle, and the circumference outside is pink in 90% and grey in 10%

90% treatment of precancerous lesions  and Management of 90% of invasive cancer cases

 

 

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

Regional Launch of the Global Strategy for Cervical Cancer Elimination in the Americas

 

Campaign Materials

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