WACC
WACC (Women Against Cervical Cancer) is an initiative that aims to improve awareness of HPV and cervical diseases, and to make cervical cancer prevention a top priority on women's and public health agendas.
Cervical cancer Cervical cancer is the second-most common cancer in women: it affects around half-a-million women and - each year - kills over 288,000, worldwide.
DACC (Doctors Against Cervical Cancer) is a branch of the WACC (Women Against Cervical Cancer) Foundation.
DACC has set up an International Award of € 5,000 which will be allocated on February 18, 2010 at the WACC Forum in Monte-Carlo. This prize will reward a medical educational project on cervical cancer prevention run by professionals (individual or group of physicians, medical institution or organization) for the benefit women. More information
The 2010 DACC Award winner is the non-governmental organization Salud Basica for its program in rural El Salvador
Basic Health International (BHI) and The Salvadoran Ministry of Health (MOH) have been working together since 2005 to improve the Salvadoran cervical cancer prevention program. Together we have developed national cervical cancer screening guidelines, conducted clinical studies, held educational conferences, and trained MOH healthcare providers in cervical cancer screening and treatment methods.
Since 2006 we have trained 20 MOH physicians and nurses that work in the most rural regions of the country in cervical cancer screening and treatment methods such as visual inspection with acetic acid and cryotherapy as a see and treat modality...