cancer
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NCDA at World Cancer Congress 2024
05th August 2024
World Cancer Congress aims to strengthen the participants' actions and impact on national, regional and international scales through a multidisciplinary programme featuring the latest successful cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care interventions. We have collected key resources to help you get ready for the discussions at the Congress.
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World Cancer Day 2024: a global call to Close the Care Gap
30th January 2024
The current World Cancer Day theme is 'Close the care gap', now in its third and final year. This campaign focuses on addressing issues of equity in cancer care, rallying individuals, organisations, and governments alike to address the disparities that hinder access to essential cancer services for many people, due to age, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic situation or geographical location. Even when these services are available, many individuals encounter barriers in obtaining the care they require.
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Physical activity promotion initiatives around the world show that healthier cities are possible
31st October 2023
To mark World Cities Day, held annually on October 31, we look to Bogota, Dhaka, Shanghai and Kigali to see what they can teach us about healthy city living.
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Civil society and government join forces to accelerate cancer care for women in Rwanda
17th August 2023
Rwanda - a regional leader in Universal Health Coverage - is helping women to detect and treat breast and cervical cancer earlier as part of government and civil society partnership to lower rates of undetected cancer.