Many of the world’s leading stakeholders in cervical cancer prevention and detection met in New York City on June 2 to look at ways to coordinate efforts and resources to bring new prevention and detection tools to low- and middle-income countries, where cervical cancer kills more than 200,000 women each year. Johanna Ralston, vice president of Global Strategies for the American Cancer Society, delivered a presentation on how to ensure that cervical cancer is on the global agenda, building on the Society’s work in regions and as host of Cervical Cancer Action, a multi-stakeholder consortium of health nongovernmental organizations working in cervical cancer globally. Other speakers, including Dr. Jan Agosti of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Dr. Anna Nyakabau of the Ministry of Health of Zimbabwe, discussed new research around effectiveness and acceptability of screening in low-resource settings, as well as social, financial, and health systems challenges to rolling out the new technologies.
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10 June 2009
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good articles, i like it much
Posted by: Jaap Ns | 10 June 2009 at 01:29 PM