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| No images? Click here Tuesday, 16 November 2021 MEDIA ADVISORY Virtual press conference/event on cervical cancer elimination efforts When: Wednesday, 17 November, 15:00 - 17:00 CET (Geneva time) Subject: One-Year of Cervical Cancer Elimination Effort This virtual press conference and special event will commemorate a landmark Day of Action for Cervical Cancer Elimination and welcome groundbreaking new initiatives to end this devastating disease, which claims the lives of over 300,000 women each year. Cervical cancer hits women in the poorest countries hardest: 9 in 10 deaths occur in low and middle income countries. WHO is highlighting important new breakthroughs to prevent and treat the disease, including the prequalification of a fourth vaccine (Cecolin from Innovax) for human papillomavirus (HPV), which is expected to increase vital vaccination supply. New recommendations will be announced to guide research into the use of artificial intelligence-based screening technologies. And a new Collaborating Centre for Cervical Cancer Elimination will be unveiled. Speakers and line-up (subject to change): Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General H.E. Tsepho Ramaphosa, First Lady of South Africa H.E. Jeannette Kagame, First Lady of Rwanda H.E. Neo Jane Masisi, First Lady of Botswana H.E Adjoavi Sika Kabore, First Lady of the Republic of Burkina Faso Australian Government – H.E. Ambassador Sally Mansfield Ms Karen Nakawala – Survivor/Advocate in Zambia Dr Princess Nothemba (Nono) Simelela, Assistant Director-General, Special Advisor to the Director-General, Strategic Priorities Partner Commitments: Unitaid – Dr Philippe Duneton, Executive Director FIND – Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Member of the Board The French government’s L’Initiative facility, Eric Fleutelot, Technical director, Major pandemics Unit Univ of Miami collaborating centre - frontline healthcare worker in Little Haiti MEDIA Q+A Part 2: Day of Action Broadcast – 15:55 – 17:00 Dr Princess Nothemba (Nono) Simelela, Assistant Director-General, Special Advisor to the Director-General, Strategic Priorities Survivors from different countries Henrietta Lacks Family North America locations South America locations Western Pacific locations Survivor South-East Asia and Eastern Mediterranean locations Angélique Kidjo - Singer/Songwriter East Africa locations Southern Africa locations West / Central Africa locations Professor Groesbeck Parham, Co-Chair of Director-General’s Expert Group on Cervical Cancer Elimination Youth – Commonwealth Task Force Europe – ENGAGe teens and Member of Parliament Chrysoula Zacharopoulou Musical Closing: Sea of Change - Cancer survivors musical group in Ireland Dr Princess Nothemba (Nono) Simelela, Assistant Director-General, Special Advisor to the Director-General, Strategic Priorities Join via Zoom: Link: https://who-e.zoom.us/j/91458276479Passcode: CCED1117Join by phone: Webinar ID: 914 5827 6479Numeric passcode for phone access: 07033217International numbers available: https://who-e.zoom.us/u/aR2Zpb0jPlease note that this press conference is broadcast live as a pool feed via EBU and AFP and available as a broadcast quality video file shortly after conclusion of the event. Please ensure you enter your name and media outlet (use name/outlet). Kindly note, only questions from media (one per journalist) are allowed. When you sign in you will be automatically put in the meeting room. WHO reserves the right to remove any participant whose behaviour causes any disruption. The event is also broadcast on WHO social media channels and you can follow it there. To ask a question, please click "raise hand" and this will enter you into the queue for questions. (It can be found under the tab: participants.) Please make sure you have a microphone connected or active on your computer. Do not ask questions via the chat as we cannot guarantee that we will can incorporate them into the q&a session. For translation during the VPC, choices are under "interpretation" or "language interpretation" depending on which version of Zoom you use. Due to the volume of questions, we are no longer able to take them from phone callers and interpretation is not available via telephone. Media contacts: You are receiving this NO-REPLY email because you are included on a WHO mail list.
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