Access Accelerated & JPMA Convene Global Health Leaders at 2017 Universal Health Coverage Forum Side Event

On 12 December 2017, two introductory webinars were conducted in partnership with WHO giving some early insights into the plans for the new Global Report on Cancer (GRoC).

Résultats du Second Appel des Bourses pour l’Afrique Francophone: sept nouveaux bénéficiaires de bourses 

Results of the Second Call for Francophone Africa Fellowships: seven new awardees

The World Health Organization (WHO) will coordinate the first periodic Global Report on Cancer (GRoC) to complement the IARC work on the World Report on Cancer.

UICC will be attending the 2nd Global NCD Alliance Forum on 9-11 December, 2017, in Sharjah, UAE under the theme Stepping up the pace on NCDs: making 2018 count providing a prime opportunity to unite and mobilise NCD civil society ahead of the 2018 UN High-level Meeting on NCDs.

UICC partner Texas Children’s Hospital together with Baylor College of Medicine’s International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI), and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation are leading a programme to address the lack of diagnosis, treatment and care in pediatric hematology-oncology in southern and east Africa.

On the occasion of the Second Global NCD Alliance Forum 2017 taking place in Sharjah, UAE, on 9-11 December, Katie Dain, CEO of NCD Alliance, shares her views on the rationale of strengthened collaboration across diseases which has been at the very core of the organisation’s work since its inception. 

At the close of the 2017 World Cancer Leaders' Summit in Mexico City, UICC launched a call to action, inviting cities with populations greater than one million to join a new multisectoral initiative - C/Can 2025: City Cancer Challenge - designed to support cities to take the lead in the design, planning and implementation of cancer treatment solutions.