The impact of COVID-19 on global cervical cancer prevention efforts has been wide-ranging, with unclear long-term ramifications. Our new TogetHER Interview series provides an opportunity for key leaders in global cervical cancer control to discuss current challenges and provide perspective on where the field needs to go from here. This installment in our TogetHER Interview...

Health Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki witnesses the vaccination a 10 year old girl with HPV vaccine at Othaya Health Centre in Nyeri County (file photo). As Kenya battles the Covid-19 pandemic, concern is rising over the low numbers of girls getting vaccinated against cervical cancer. An official update on the programme indicates that more than...

The East African region has the highest burden of cervical cancer in the world. Anuradha Gupta, deputy CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Gavi board chair; and Joy, coordinator at Tabitha Clinic in Kenya. Gavi/2019/Ojwok Why Global Citizens Should Care Achieving Global Goal 3 on ensuring good health and well-being for all...

Government and partners rally together to eliminate a disease that still kills nine Kenyan women every day The Kenyan Ministry of Health and its partners today officially launched the 2nd National Cervical Cancer Awareness Week with an event and walk-in Kathonzweni, Makueni County. The week aims to raise awareness about cervical cancer in Kenya, and...

“Given that similar declines have been observed in the burdens of other deadly diseases thanks to widespread provision of effective vaccines for them, it would be imprudent and unethical to deny Kenyans this life-saving intervention,” Heath Advocate and co-founder Women 4 Cancer Early detection and Treatment, Benda Kithaka, said in seconding Dr. Koigi’s sentiments/CFM –...

Nairobi, Wednesday 13th November 2019  –  Kenya is among the three leading Countries in Africa with the highest number of cervical cancer deaths, the Vaccine Alliance (GAVI) Board Chair Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Lweala has said. Speaking today in Nairobi  during a high level dialogue on the future of the  HPV vaccine programme in Kenya, Dr. Ngozi...

We have adopted the WHO global strategy of accelerating elimination of cervical cancer, eliminating cervical cancer through screening and treatment of precancerous lesions as well as treatment and palliative care for invasive cervical cancer. In alignment with the WHO strategy our objective is to: Reach a percentage 70% number of women with screening using a...