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00:00Distinguished guests, dear colleagues and friends,
00:04Thank you for the opportunity to address this very important meeting on this very important topic.
00:11There is no greater tragedy than a life lost needlessly.
00:17Every two minutes, a woman loses her life to cervical cancer.
00:23This does represent our collective failure to protect women from a preventable disease.
00:30Two years ago, WHO launched an initiative to eliminate cervical cancer.
00:37Since then, we have worked with our partners to develop a unified strategy to achieve that goal.
00:44Our aim is to drive cervical cancer below 4 per 100,000 women in every country within a century, preventing over 70 million deaths.
00:56The idea of eliminating any cancer was once considered a pipe dream.
01:03We now have the evidence and the tools that show it can be done.
01:11Vaccination, screening, treatment, palliative care.
01:16We cannot cherry-pick.
01:19We must pursue them all.
01:22These tools have enabled some rich countries to drive cervical cancer to low levels.
01:28If we can do this in any country, we must be able to do it in all countries.
01:36It is simply unjust to not make the same services accessible to all girls and women, regardless of where they live or who they are.
01:49Our challenge is not primarily one of technology.
01:54It is one of equity.
01:57That is why the 90-70-90 targets are so important.
02:04In low- and lower-middle-income countries alone, 250,000 deaths can be prevented by 2030 if the 90-70-90 strategy is implemented.
02:20We ask you, the research community, to please join us as advocates for the cause.
02:27The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many essential health services and is likewise a risk to services for cervical cancer.
02:39It is vital that countries ensure routine services such as vaccination and cancer screening continue with the appropriate safety precautions.
02:49The WHO has developed guidelines for countries on how to ensure continuity of essential services during the pandemic.
03:00Dear friends, each case of cervical cancer not only affects the women who are inflicted by the disease, but also their families and communities who lose them.
03:13We have a unique opportunity to end the suffering of women from this painful, onerous, and stigmatizing disease.
03:26We know how to stop this disease.
03:30Together, we must make sure all girls and women benefit from the tools and the knowledge to make cervical cancer history.
03:41I thank you.
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