SEO Press Releases
06/21/2010
Within the last month reports from two women’s organizations focused global attention on the silent epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s) and their plans to provide accessibility to care.
On June 8, health leaders at the WOMEN DELIVER conference in Washington D.C. called on the international community to commit resources to ensure women and girls have equal access to cervical cancer prevention technologies. A Declaration for Universal Access to Cervical Cancer Prevention was issued by leading women’s health, cancer and business organizations, including PATH, International Planned Parenthood Federation and the International Union Against Cancer.
The Declaration calls for swift action by the international community to provide financial/political commitments to accessibility for cervical cancer screening, treatment and vaccination citing cervical cancer as the leading cause of cancer-related death in developing countries, killing more than 270,000 women annually.
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