The month of March was significant to the Cancer Awareness Campaign in Rwanda and could be pivotal to changing the way we look at cancer in the country from now on. The Women Empowerment Cancer Advocacy Network (WE CAN) held its 4th Annual East Africa Breast and Cervical Cancer Education, Advocacy and Outreach Summit at the Kigali Convention Center, March 24-26, 2017.
The month of March was significant to the Cancer Awareness Campaign in Rwanda and could be pivotal to changing the way we look at cancer in the country from now on.
The Women Empowerment Cancer Advocacy Network (WE CAN) held its 4th Annual East Africa Breast and Cervical Cancer Education, Advocacy and Outreach Summit at the Kigali Convention Center, March 24-26, 2017.
The Summit brought together over 70 cancer survivors, and advocates from 10 countries as well as local clinicians and policy makers.
It was co-hosted by the US National Cancer Institute Center for Global Health in partnership with local organisations, including Breast Cancer Initiative East Africa Inc, the Ministry of Health, Rwanda and Partners in Health.
WE CAN aims at connecting patients, advocates, survivors, medical professionals and policy makers to change the women’s cancers around the world.
The summits provide education and foster capacity building, knowledge transfer and sharing of lessons learned in advocacy and outreach to dispel damaging myths and misconceptions about cancer and empower women to be successful leaders in their communities and better informed public policy and social norm change.
Thought provoking and action charged objectives were tabled to inspire participants to: