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WACC 2010  2010 WACC International AWARD
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The 2010 WACC Award winner is the non-profit union from Estonian:
Naised Emakakaelav?hi Vastu
 Lecture at schools May 10 | Pictures about lectures March May 10 | WACC Award report WACC Est June 2010
The non-profit association Women Against Cervical Cancer was created in Estonia by 8 active women in the spring of 2007. Members are well-known women in Estonia. All members have some personal contact with cervical cancer.
Union has 30 supportive members and 20 supportive companies.
The purpose of the movement is to increase the awareness of the society about the possibilities of the prevention and detection of the cancer of the cervix.
The long-term purpose is to initiate women to have a more careful attitude towards their health.
The women?s movement cooperates with the Estonian Cancer Society and organises informative events according to possibilities.
The association?s main message is: Cervical cancer is preventable, visit your doctor regularly.
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...
WACC Award Participants
Agaliazo (Society of Volunteers Against Cancer) - Greece
Bethesda Mission - India
Deutscher Akademikerinnenbund/DAB - Germany
Donne in Rete - Italy
Generation Hope - Zambia
Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust - United Kingdom
Naised Emakakaelav?hi Vastu (Women against Cervical Cancer) - Estonia
ONDA-Osservatorio Nazionale Sulla Salute Della Donna - Italy
DACC Award Participants
Basic Health International (El Salvador)
New-York Phycisians Against Cancer (USA)
Rogin-Russian Organization on Genital Infections and Neoplasia (Russia)
The 2010 WACC International Award is open to all associations, organisations or institutions members of the Women Against Cervical Cancer (WACC) Network. Organisations involved in the fight against cervical cancer and HPV diseases, that wish to participate but that are not yet members of WACC may simply join, after reading and approving the WACC Charter.
The WACC Foundation, in line with its fundamental missions and cause against cervical cancer, will reward again in 2010 the best education or information campaigns with 2 grants of 5 000 € each (total grants of ten thousand euros).
 One prize will reward 5 000 € to a women's initiative or a patient association in its effort to inform, to educate, to help prevent women from cervical cancer
Another prize will reward 5 000 € to an organisation involving medical project, training or information to the professionals for their patients
The winning campaigns may consist of one or many actions or tools, of any kind of medium, digital, broadcast or print. It may be regional or national. It may be a campaign for patients only, for all women or for the general public.
It may be implemented and over, in which case the prize shall help continue the action. The campaign may be running or simply planned for the future, in which case the prize shall help it come true.
Contest criteria:
Global approach of prevention
Fieldwork with concrete actions
Measurable results of impact
If sponsored, the campaign should have multiple financing or partnerships
The presentation of your project shall include your goals and intentions, a short situation analysis, your focused targets, your programme of actions and fieldwork, the tools and the outcome. Key learning on success and difficulties are also requested.
The 2010 WACC Award edition will be presided by Pr. Javier Cortes (Spain) and the jury will be composed of the WACC International Task Force members including Joseph Monsonego (France), Pamela Morton (UK).
Practical information:
Project are to be submitted via email to contact@wacc-network.org copie to carole.schaal@wacc-network.org
The project must be presented in English language. The campaign tools using national language other than English may simply have a short presentation of the claim, messages and purposes.
The document used for the presentation shall be presented in a PDF format, or Word format or Power Point format. Images and videos are encouraged.
Deadline: the documents needs to be sent by email by December 15th 2009.
The deadline for sending the project by regular postal mail is November 10th 2009, for logistical reasons.
A confirmation of reception will be send after each arrival of project at the WACC bureau.
If you don't get this message, it will mean that we did not receive your project.
The final winner will be informed at the third WACC Network meeting in Monaco on February 18th 2010.
50 % of the award will be allocated following the announcement of the winner (this prize will be handed over at the WACC Charity Gala dinner in Monaco). The other 50 % will be allocated after completion of the winning project and receipt of the report.
NB : The campaigns of the 2008 WACC award nominees are available on www.wacc-network.org
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