The World Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.N children's agency UNICEF pledged nearly $600 million towards eliminating cervical cancer.
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The World Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.N children's agency UNICEF pledged nearly $600 million towards eliminating cervical cancer. The funding would go towards expanding access to vaccination, screening and treatment worldwide. That contrasts with many high-income countries that introduced the vaccine in the 2000s. The World Bank will commit $400 million over 3 years, with $180 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and $10 million from UNICEF.
A woman dies of cervical cancer roughly every two minutes, around 90% of them in low and middle-income countries, where access to preventative vaccines as well as screening and treatment can be very limited.
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