February 4th marks World Cancer Day and is an opportunity to renew and amplify efforts to manage this disease. This year’s theme, “Uniting our Voices and Taking Action,” is timely, as no single organization, sector, or approach can conquer cancer on its own. It will take a collective effort to make meaningful progress.
AstraZeneca Egypt is launching a holistic patient support programme “Tadamon” which offers different solutions to support cancer patients. The programme includes access to free diagnostic tests, in addition to increasing the awareness of patients and their families by fully empowering them with all the resources and early screenings.
Additionally, AstraZeneca announced “Accelerating Change Together; Cancer Care in Africa (ACT; CCA) programme”, on the margins of the UN Climate Change Conference 2022, COP27, under the patronage of the Egyptian Ministry of Health. The programme aims to increase the screening and diagnostic capabilities and empowering patients to fight cancer. Furthermore, it has ambitious goals to expand cancer screening and diagnostic services to estimate of one million people and provide training to over 10,000 healthcare professionals across 100 oncology centres in Africa.
Furthermore, Al Werdany emphasized on AstraZeneca’s strategy to provide better healthcare opportunities for healthier life for future generations through our Young Health Programme, which aims to raise the awareness of over 700,000 young Egyptians on how to take better choices towards a healthier lifestyle, along with the endorsement of 5 Egyptian Ministries and multiple partners. As we believe in the importance of keeping an open dialogue with youth, enabling different generations to take correct actions to protect themselves from non-communicable diseases such as cancer.’’
