Welcome to the website on the UNIFEM-EC conference Fight against cervical cancer: challenges and opportunities for women's health, which was held on 27-28 September 2007 at the Palais d'Egmont in Brussels.

The conference, which was hosted by the Belgian government and facilitated by EEPA, brought together a wide range of stakeholders, including the EC and UNIFEM (who were the co-convenors), representatives of governments in Europe and the global south, civil society actors as well as the private sector.

You can find all documents relating to the conference in our document section. You can find there some background papers, most of the presentations given, the closing press release, the list of participants and finally the conference outcome document and the conference report.

You can watch the video message by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, here and here you can see a documentary about cervical cancer. More pictures of the conference can be found in our Photo Library.

Finally, you can also read some articles about the conference or inspired by the conference.

Brussels, 29/08/08: Bamuturaki Musinguzi, a Ugandan journalist, recently won the MSD Health & Medical Award at the CNN/MultiChoice African Journalist Awards 2008. His winning story "Silent Killer - the devastating effect of cervical cancer on women in Africa", published in The EastAfrican newspaper on 5 November 2007, was inspired by the International Conference on the Fight Against Cervical Cancer. Bamuturaki Musinguzi’s article told the story about a Ugandan woman who after her struggle with the dicease went on to form the Women’s Awareness Against Cervical Cancer (WAACC) network, which now has 26 members in Uganda.

Click here to read the article.