Cervical Cancer Elimination Roundtable

Mission for Education, Social and Health (MESH), the NGO of National Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) is collaborating with Nigeria Cancer Society (NCS) and End Cervical Cancer Nigeria Initiative (ECCNI) to launch cancer advocacy program to build the capacity of Muslim Faith Based Organization (FBOs) to include cancer prevention in their advocacy activities. The objective of the program is to provide a framework to increase participation of religious bodies in the campaign against cancer. The idea for the program was conceptualized during activities organized by MESH and partner organizations to mark the 2023 World Hijab Day (WHD) and World Cancer Day (WCD) at the Conference Hall of National Mosque Abuja, on 4th of February 2023. The World Hijab Day is celebrated globally on the 1st of February to create awareness on discrimination against Muslim women donning their Hijab, while the Word Cancer Day (WCD) is marked globally on the 4th of February annually to create awaren...

Dear Fellow Cancer Advocates, Today, the world is marking the second anniversary of the global commitment to eliminate cervical cancer as a disease of public health significance. Concurrently, we are celebrating our second anniversary of audacity of hope, End Cervical Cancer Nigeria Initiative (ECCNI) was birthed on the heels of the launching of the global strategy with the ambitious dream of ensuring that Nigeria will be counted when the roll call of countries on the path to cervical cancer elimination is being made. Two years have passed. We have met more challenges than we had anticipated but we have equally been exposed to more possibilities than we had envisaged. Our ambitious dream of Nigeria being on the path to cervical cancer elimination doesn't sound so ambitious any more, because you have consistently proven that our collective output is much more than the summation of our individual output. This was the secret of the success recorded in 2020 when various individuals ...

  Members of End Cervical Cancer Nigeria Initiative (ECCNI) on the 6th of October 2022 paid a courtesy visit to the Commissioner of Police, CP. Magaji Ahmed Kotongora in his office at the headquarters of Kebbi Command of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) in attendance at the meeting were senior officers in his cabinet and members of kebbi state committee of the Cervical Cancer Treatment Access Program (CCTAP); Pharm Funsho Adeoti, Nurse Zainab Yusuf, Nurse Rachel Omoladun Onifade, Mr. Mustapha Yusuf Adesina and Dr. Ishak Lawal.   The goal of the visit was to intimate the new CP of the ongoing collaboration between ECCNI and the Police Cottage Hospital, Kebbi Command and to solicit his support towards achieving the objectives of the collaboration. Earlier in the year, the wife of the Executive Governor of Kebbi State, Dr. Zainab Shinkafi Bagudu flagged off breast and cervical cancer screening services at the Police Cottage Hospital. The program enjoys tremendous support of the O...

  Consequent upon the success of the collaboration between End Cervical Cancer Nigeria Initiative (ECCNI), Nigerian Cancer Nigeria (NCS), Medicaid Cancer Foundation (MCF) and BIO Venture for Global Health (BVGH) to organize a three-day virtual training on Resource Stratified Screening and Treatment of Pre-invasive Lesions of the Cervix,  click to view full document ,  ECCNI has stablished a virtual training secretariat with the goal of providing solution to the observed skills gaps for the screening and treatment of pre-invasive lesions of the cervix in low resource settings. The secretariat will provide evidence-based strategies for capacity building of healthcare providers in low resource settings providing cervical cancer prevention services The secretariat will develop training curriculum in line with the flagship project of ECCNI; REsource Stratified Prevention/Elimination of Cervical cancer and Treatment (RESPECT). The program aims to provide RESPECTful life-sa...

The CCTAP is an initiative of ECCNI which is been co-sponsored by Aminu Garba Magashi(AMG) Foundation, endorsed by Nigerian Cancer Society(NCS) and seeking collaboration of all stakeholders in providing access to treatment for indigent cervical cancer patients. It is currently being piloted in Kebbi state with the support of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners Association of Nigeria (OPPAN), Medicaid Cancer Foundation (MCF) and BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH).  The Kebbi Pilot project will be executed with an initial sum of N400,000 ($952 representing half of the total initial pledge of N800,000 for the program. The breakdown of the of the income are as follows: Dr. Ishak Lawal            - N200,000 ($476) Aminu Magashi Garba (AMG) Foundation -N250,000 ($595) Mrs Bolatito Aiyenigba                       -N100,000 ($238) The National Steering Committee made a public announcement on the 16 t...

Cervical cancer experts brainstormed best practices to achieve the 70% cervical screening target in low resource settings at the May edition of the Roundtable Discussion Series of End Cervical Cancer Nigeria Initiative (ECCNI). The keynote speaker at the event, Prof Cyril Dim, provided an overview of the WHO strategy to accelerate elimination of cervical cancer. The WHO strategy has a 3 prong approach; 1- 90% vaccination of eligible girls with HPV vaccines by 15 years; 2 – 70% screening of eligible women with high precision test at age 35 then 45; and 3- 90%  of all identified cervical lesions are treated. The second prong on screening of eligible women was the focus of this edition of the roundtable discussion series. The situation report for Nigeria showed that cervical cancer continues to be a public health problem despite the abundance of knowledge of how best to prevent it. In 2020, it was estimated that 12,075 cases of cervical cancer and 7,968 cervical cancer related death...