It will feature performances and remarks from cancer survivors and renowned artists such as Angelique Kidjo, as well as community efforts to promote vaccinations and screenings.
100 world monuments are being illuminated in teal – the colour of cervical cancer elimination - to mark the day, from the Temple of Heaven in Beijing to city skylines across Australia and Canada’s Niagara Falls.
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参加行动日活动的博茨瓦纳共和国第一夫人Neo Jane Masisi阁下说：“我们拥有可消除宫颈癌的工具和知识。
“We have the tools and knowledge to eliminate cervical cancer.
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如何加以利用取决于我们自己。
What we do with thatis up to us,” said H.E.
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我们可以选择使妇女陷入痛苦的、可避免的死亡；
Neo Jane Masisi, First Lady of the Republic of Botswana, who is participating in the day’s events.
FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics, announced the launch of a new initiative to improve cervical cancer testing and screening using innovative technologies in low- and middle-income countries;
Unitaid reaffirmed its commitment to lay the groundwork for wide-scale adoption of innovative cervical cancer screening and treatment tools - and is on track to reach one million women by 2022, despite COVID-19;
The French government’s L’Initiative facility, implemented by Expertise France, will announce a reinforcement of the support, including operational research, to countries with high comorbidity and coinfection of HIV and HPV-associated cancers.