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World Health Organization

Cervical cancer country profiles

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Dec 2021

Cervical cancer is preventable and curable, as long as it is detected early and managed effectively, yet it is the fourth most common form of cancer among women worldwide. In August 2020 the World Health Assembly adopted the Global Strategy for Cervical Cancer Elimination. The strategy outlines a comprehensive approach that includes prevention, effective screening and treatment of pre-cancerous le...

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World Health Organization

WHO global report on trends in prevalence of tobacco use 2000-2025, fourth edition

Publication

19 Nov 2021

Progress in reducing tobacco use is a key indicator for measuring countries’ efforts to implement the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control – target 3.a under the Sustainable Development Goals agenda. Countries have adopted this indicator to report progress also towards the tobacco reduction target under the Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases 20...

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WHO Regional Office for Europe

Commercial and Social Determinants in Palliative Care

Report

19 Nov 2021

All cancer patients benefit from structured palliative care interventions that are patient-centred, as these demonstrate improved care quality, symptom relief and quality of life. Patient-centred palliative care should be provided alongside tumour-centred care (TCC), rather than the sole TCC-focus on cure supported by the pharmaceutical industry. In practice, this is not the case. Commercial deter...

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Assessing the development of palliative care worldwide: a set of actionable indicators.

Publication

29 Sep 2021

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World Health Organization

Cervical Cancer Elimination Initiative Knowledge Repository

Database

28 Sep 2021

Cervical cancer is preventable and curable, as long as it is detected early and managed effectively. Yet it is the fourth most common form of cancer among women worldwide, with the disease claiming the lives of more than 300 000 women in 2018. Few diseases reflect global inequities as much as cancer of the cervix. Nearly 90% of the deaths in 2018 occurred in low- and middle-income countries. Th...

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World Health Organization

WHO global air quality guidelines: particulate matter (‎PM2.5 and PM10)‎, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide

Guide

22 Sep 2021

The WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines set the levels of air quality for a number of pollutants to be achieved everywhere in order to significantly reduce the adverse health effects of pollution. They also include interim targets which are incremental steps in the reduction of air pollution and are intended for use in areas where pollution is high towards ultimately achieving air quality guideline...

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

World Food Safety Day 2021

Publication

15 Sep 2021

With a theme of ‘Safe food now for a heathy tomorrow’, World Food Safety Day (7 June 2021) focused on the immediate and long-term benefits of producing and consuming safe food. It was a day to remember that food safety is part of food security and good health. It was a time to recognize the intrinsic connections between the health of people, plants, animals, the environment and economy. And it...

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154 Organizations Call for Phasing Out Sales of Combustible Tobacco Products

Article

24 May 2021

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 24, 2021 – Our vision of a world without tobacco deaths is materializing. Today, ASH released an open letter calling on governments around the world to not only envision ending the tobacco epidemic but put in place concrete plans to make it happen. Not someday, or by 2050, or by 2100. We cannot simply burden future generations with an epidemic we can and should solve now....

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Union for International Cancer Control

Global action on financing cervical cancer elimination

Publication

01 Feb 2021

Executive Summary Cervical cancer is the fourth-most commonly detected cancer in women worldwide yet is one of the most preventable and treatable cancers if detected early. Women in low- and lower-middle income countries and the poorest within countries are disproportionally affected by cervical cancer-related morbidity and mortality. In 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a glob...

PublicationCancerHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Guidelines on the management of chronic pain in children.

Guide

10 Dec 2020

In these guidelines, the World Health Organization (WHO) provides evidence-informed recommendations for the management of chronic pain in children. The recommendations are based on the most current, high-quality scientific evidence, and were formulated following processes and using methods that meet the highest international standards for guideline development. The recommendations in this guidelin...

GuideCancerAccess to essential medicines and services

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The Lancet

Mortality impact of achieving WHO cervical cancer elimination targets: a comparative modelling analysis in 78 low-income and lower-middle-income countries

Article

14 Nov 2020

WHO is developing a global strategy towards eliminating cervical cancer as a public health problem, which proposes an elimination threshold of four cases per 100 000 women and includes 2030 triple-intervention coverage targets for scale-up of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination to 90%, twice-lifetime cervical screening to 70%, and treatment of pre-invasive lesions and invasive cancer to 90%....

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World Health Organization

Global strategy to accelerate the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem

Strategy document

14 Nov 2020

This global strategy to eliminate cervical cancer proposes: a vision of a world where cervical cancer is eliminated as a public health problem; a threshold of 4 per 100 000 women-years for elimination as a public health problem;&nbsp; the following 90-70-90 targets that must be met by 2030 for countries to be on the path towards cervical cancer elimination: 90% of girls fully vaccinate...

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