In 2020 the World Health Assembly adopted a new Global strategy to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem. To achieve the vision, the global strategy sets targets that must be met by 2030 for countries to be on the path towards cervical cancer elimination:
- 90% of girls fully vaccinated with HPV vaccine by age 15 years.
- 70% of women are screened with a high-performance test by 35 years of age and again by 45 years of age
- 90% of women identified with cervical disease receive treatment (90% of women with precancer treated, and 90% of women with invasive cancer managed).
In its next meeting, the Expert Group will look at the barriers and discuss solutions to design resource-stratified service platforms with the capacity to deliver high-quality cervical cancer ‘screen and treat’ systems, and strategies to implement them at a speed and level of coverage that rapidly reduces cervical cancer incidence, tailored to the local context.
The group of experts will also consider recommendations to WHO on how the organization can further support Member States in the implementation of the interventions recommended in the global strategy.