About the global commitment to eliminate cervical cancer:
In May 2018, the WHO Director-General announced a global call for action to eliminate cervical cancer, underscoring renewed political will to make elimination a reality and calling for all stakeholders to unite behind this common goal. In August 2020 the World Health Assembly adopted the Global Strategy for cervical cancer elimination (https://apo-opa.co/47vIlGH) as a public health problem, with the ultimate aim of reducing cervical cancer incidence to fewer than four women per 100,000 women-years worldwide. Achieving that goal rests on three key pillars and their corresponding targets described in the WHO global strategy (https://apo-opa.co/47a7tCY).
A mathematical model illustrates the following interim benefits of achieving the 90-70-90 targets by 2030 in low- and lower-middle-income countries (Canfell et al (https://apo-opa.co/40EkemU); Brisson et al (https://apo-opa.co/49PsdSv)):
- median cervical cancer incidence rate will fall by 42% by 2045, and by 97% by 2120, averting more than 74 million new cases of cervical cancer;
- median cumulative number of cervical cancer deaths averted will be 300,000 by 2030, over 14 million by 2070, and over 62 million by 2120.
The WHO cervical cancer elimination initiative celebrates the ambition to eliminate cervical cancer every year on 17 November: https://apo-opa.co/47p1Ws2
