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...

“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...