The World Health Organization, WHO, today has recorded a historic milestone as it launched the Global Strategy to Accelerate the Elimination of Cervical Cancer and it’s related deaths by 2050. WHO says the strategy outlines three key steps which includes vaccination, screening and treatment, adding that successful implementation of all three could reduce more than 40% of new cases of the disease and 5 million related deaths by 2050.

WHO Director General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Gbebreyeyus during the launch said, “Eliminating Cervical Cancer would have once seemed impossible dream, but we now have the cost- effective, evidence based tools to make that dream a reality.”
But we can only eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem if we match the power of the tools we have with unrelenting determination to scale up their use globally, Gbebreyeyus emphazied.

WHO Director General, Dr. Princesses Nothemba Simelela said, ” The huge rate of mortality related to cervical cancer is a consequence of decades of neglect by global health community. According to her” Critical development s include availability of prophylactic vaccines, low cost approaches to screening and treating cervical cancer precursors and novel approaches to surgical training.
Through a shared global commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals, SDG, and leaving no one behind the countries of the world are forging a new oath to ending cervical cancer.
In a statement WHO said,” today’s development represents a historic milestone because it marks the first time that 194 countries commit to eliminating cancer – following adoption of a resolution at this year’s World Health Assembly.”

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