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Who are Doctors Against Cervical Cancer?
DACC form a medical community involved in the fight of cervical cancer at different levels such as for instance: Research, treatment, prevention or education...
DACC doctors come from different type of background:
- Public health officers or practitioners
- Researchers, gynecologists, oncologists, colposcopists, radiotherapists, GPs, biologists, ...
- In public hospitals or private practices, in local dispensaries or in international health NGOs, etc.
DACC doctors believe their mobilization and concrete actions will have a genuine impact on the incidence of the disease and on the lives of many women, today and for the generations to come.
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What Vision do Doctors Against Cervical Cancer share?
They share an ambitious vision of a world without the fatality and injustice of cervical cancer !
"Doctors Against Cervical Cancer share the vision of the Women Against Cervical Cancer Foundation where all women are informed about human papillomavirus (HPV) and its associated diseases, and know how to prevent and control cervical cancer so they can take action to accelerate its eradication."
If the virus and its transmission cannot be eliminated, the deaths due to HPV can be, thanks to prevention and early detection.
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What are the missions of Doctors Against Cervical Cancer?
DACC missions: to Inform & educate, to protect & prevent and to act Against Cervical Cancer!
Doctors Against Cervical Cancer are committed doctors against the disease & HPV, in their daily practice as well as within their local community.
Doctors Against Cervical Cancer are committed to take actions aimed at promoting education, public awareness and global knowledge on HPV infection and cervical cancer prevention.
Acting along with WOMEN AGAINST CERVICAL CANCER (WACC), they work, they research, they treat, they prevent and protect women from the lethal yet preventable disease at their own local or national level, or at international level
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Doctors Against Cervical Cancer help inform & educate !
- Doctors Against Cervical Cancer explain, lecture, teach or train, give conferences, publish articles ...
- in and outside the practice;
- in and outside the scientific community : med schools, public forums, conferences, congresses, workshops, debates, media interviews...
- Doctors Against Cervical Cancer participate in the dissemination of evidence-based information to their patients, as to their environment (families, schools, public health services ...)
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Doctors Against Cervical Cancer act for cervical cancer prevention & the protection of women
- Doctors Against Cervical Cancer are invited to participate in the WACC VOICE OF WOMEN Survey Wave2
- Doctors Against Cervical Cancer are involved at many levels of the civil society
- Working with associations and patient groups at local or national level
- Working with the WACC International Foundation at international level
- Doctors Against Cervical Cancer can play a role at political levels
- Working on prevention strategies or on public health education
- Being part of Health Policy advisory committees, Technical committees ... regionally or nationally
- Or meeting with health authorities on cervical cancer control or education
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