Joint Global Programme on Cervical Cancer: Prevention and Control

The Joint Global Programme on Cervical Cancer provided global leadership and technical assistance to support governments and their partners to build and sustain high-quality national programmes to prevent and control cervical cancer, ensuring that all women and girls could access services equitably.

Funded by Belgium and implemented by UNFPA, WHO and IAEA, the programme started in October 2018 and ran until April 2021, working initially in 6 low- and middle-income countries: Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, and the United Republic of Tanzania.

The programme aimed to take new technologies to scale, reduce the cost of vaccines, and use innovative approaches to ensure women could access services. The ultimate goal was for death from cervical cancer to cease being a public health issue within one generation.