We are inviting our members, including National Societies and Regional Federations, to apply for funding to identify in-country gaps in cervical cancer vaccination and screening, whether educational, professional or collaborative. Applicants will propose a one-year programme to design and test an education and/or advocacy initiative focused on vaccination or screening in a region(s) where no formal programme exists or, if present, is as yet unsuccessful.

We are proud to announce that the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics (IJGO), FIGO’s official scientific journal, has released an open access Special Issue on the Elimination of Cervical Cancer. Earlier this year, we released an updated statement on the elimination of this largely preventable disease, which called for our Member Societies to collectively commit to solving this issue by 2030.

In August 2020, the 73rd World Health Assembly passed a resolution calling for the elimination of cervical cancer, and adopted a strategy to achieve this. Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) marks this historic announcement by officially launching the elimination strategy. The strategy sets goals for all countries to achieve 90% HPV vaccination coverage, 70% screening coverage and 90% access to treatment by the year 2030.

‘I am Generation Equality: Realising Women’s Rights’ is UN Women’s theme for this year’s International Women’s Day, marking the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

Writing in the opinion pages of the New York Times in the US, the actress said that she had been thinking about doing this for a long time.

She made the decision after receiving the results of a blood test that measures the amount of the protein CA-125 in the blood.

This is used to monitor ovarian cancer, she explained. Her results had a "number of inflammatory markers" that were elevated – a possible sign of early cancer.