Global Action Takes Center Stage On The First World Cervical Cancer Elimination Day

Today marks nan first World Cervical Cancer Elimination Day – mandated by nan World Health Assembly – a historical milestone successful world efforts to extremity a preventable cancer. This time of action builds connected powerful momentum, pinch countries and partners uniting to motorboat eager vaccination campaigns, grow screening and curen services, and accelerate advancement toward eliminating cervical crab arsenic a nationalist wellness problem.

The yearly commemoration highlights a captious opportunity: cervical crab – nan 4th astir communal crab successful women – claims complete 350 000 lives each year, yet it is simply a illness that we person nan devices to eliminate.

The Day supports nan halfway pillars of nan WHO's world elimination strategy: vaccinating 90% of girls against quality papillomavirus (HPV), screening 70% of women, and treating 90% of those pinch pre-cancer and invasive cancer. It serves arsenic a captious level to fortify advocacy, accelerate work delivery, and mobilize resources to guarantee each female and woman has entree to life-saving care.

In 2018, I was proud to motorboat nan world telephone to action connected cervical crab elimination, and I'm moreover prouder now to spot what was erstwhile a distant dream becoming a reality. More and much countries are scaling up HPV vaccination, improving screening, and expanding treatment, bringing america person to a early free of cervical cancer."

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General

This momentum is underscored by nan announcement from Gavi, nan Vaccine Alliance, and its partners, who estimate that nan eager extremity to scope 86 million girls by nan extremity of 2025 has been met, reflecting a broader activity of state action to beforehand nationalist elimination plans and grow entree to screening and treatment.

Countries are marking World Cervical Cancer Elimination Day pinch a activity of actions connected aggregate fronts. Vaccination is scaling up done campaigns successful Sierra Leone and Liberia targeting complete 1.5 million girls. Screening efforts are besides intensifying, pinch Sierra Leone readying a wide run crossed each 16 districts, followed by an consciousness walk. Meanwhile, successful Malaysia, defense is taking halfway shape arsenic survivors lead a week-long promotion of self-sampling HPV testing, a cardinal invention for expanding screening access.

This past twelvemonth has seen important country-level action, providing a powerful instauration for nan caller yearly commemoration.

• Angola: Launched an HPV vaccination run successful October for girls aged 9–12 years.
• China: Added HPV vaccine into its nationalist immunization programme, scaling up vaccination to each 13-year-old girls.
• Cuba: Launched HPV vaccination successful October 2025 for each girls successful Grade 4.
• Ghana: Held a nationwide vaccination run successful October 2025 for girls aged 9–14 years, aiming to scope 2.4 million girls.
• Indonesia: Hosted nan Second Global Forum for Cervical Cancer Elimination and reaffirmed its committedness to eliminating cervical crab by 2030 done bold nationalist targets (90-75-90), a beardown business ecosystem, and important investments successful vaccination, screening, and curen nether its National Cervical Cancer Elimination Plan 2023–2030.
• Nepal: Ran a nationwide HPV vaccination run targeting girls aged 10–14 years successful February 2025, to people nan preamble of nan HPV vaccine successful nan nationalist immunization schedule.
• Nigeria: Launched a nationwide cervical crab elimination effort, pinch nan First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu committing US$ 700 000 done nan 'Renewed Hope Initiative'. The finance further affirms Nigeria's activity and support for WHO's elimination targets, reflected besides successful its co-leadership of nan solution establishing World Cervical Cancer Elimination Day.
• Pakistan: Launched nan nationalist HPV vaccine preamble done a run targeting girls aged 9–14, reaching complete 9 million girls successful what is to day nan largest azygous HPV run immoderate state has each conducted.
• Rwanda: Through Mission 2027, its Accelerated Plan for Elimination, nan state is quickly expanding nationwide screening and curen services to meet nan 90-70-90 targets by 2027, 3 years up of nan world goal.
• Spain: Through nan Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), Spain's three-year finance is supporting nan WHO Cervical Cancer Elimination Initiative to fortify entree to HPV vaccination, screening, and curen successful countries of nan WHO African and Eastern Mediterranean Regions.
• South Africa: Placed cervical crab elimination connected nan world shape arsenic portion of its G20 wellness agenda, reaffirming nan country's patient support for nan WHO Global Strategy. The state besides co-led nan solution establishing World Cervical Cancer Elimination Day and is finalizing its National Strategic Framework for Cervical Cancer Elimination, to beryllium launched later this year.
• Tajikistan: Launched HPV vaccination for each girls aged 10–14 years successful its regular immunization schedule from October 2025.
• Tunisia: Introduced nan HPV vaccine into its regular immunization programme for 12-year-old girls successful April 2025.
• Across WHO Western Pacific Region, Unitaid and WHO person expanded their business to fortify cervical crab prevention and curen programmes, supporting equitable entree to screening and curen services for precancer.

Countries worldwide are accelerating efforts to grow entree to HPV vaccination, screening, and treatment, advancing toward nan 90-70-90 targets of nan Global Strategy.