World Cervical Cancer Elimination Day 2025

This statement is jointly released by Global Fund Advocates Network Asia-Pacific (GFAN AP), International Community of Women living with HIV Asia Pacific (ICWAP), and Women4GlobalFund (W4GF) on World Cervical Cancer Elimination Day 2025.

On 17 November 2025, the world commemorates World Cervical Cancer Elimination Day — designated by the Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly as the first official world health day dedicated to eliminating a cancer — with the theme “Act Now: Eliminate Cervical Cancer”, a call for bold and coordinated action to ensure every woman and girl, in all of their diversity, is protected through human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and has access to comprehensive prevention, screening, treatment, and healthcare.

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women with around 660,000 new diagnoses and 350,000 deaths reported globally in 2022. That same year, the WHO Western Pacific (WPRO) and South-East Asia (SEARO) regions accounted for over half of the global burden, at around 380,000 cases and 190,000 mortalities. It is no coincidence that the vast majority (94%) of cervical cancer deaths are in low- and middle-income countries, where access to HPV vaccination as well as screening and treatment services are often limited. Additionally, women living with HIV are 6 times more at risk of cervical cancer compared to women not living with HIV, with an estimated 5% of all cervical cancer cases attributable to HIV.

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