PACT News
- 23 November 2012 | Noting the growing cancer epidemic, the Minister of Health of Nepal requested the IAEA to conduct an imPACT Review mission. Read more »
- 22 November 2012 | For the first time, PACT is convening cancer control experts in Vienna from its eight PMDS to assess advances made in each of their countries. Read more »
PACT Partners
UN Organizations:
- World Health Organization and its Regional and Country Offices
- International Agency for Research on Cancer
National Cancer Institutions:
- Africa Oxford Cancer Foundation (AfrOx)
- Institut National du Cancer (France)
- Instituto Nacional de Cncer (Brazil)
- Korea Nuclear International Cooperation Foundation
- State Office for Nuclear Safety (Czech Republic)
- National Cancer Institute of USA
- Tata Memorial Centre
Non-governmental organizations:
- American Cancer Society
- Breast Health Global Initiative (BHGI)
- Axios International
- C-Change
- International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research
- Livestrong Foundation
- mondofragilis network
- National Foundation for Cancer Research
- Open Society Institute
- Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI-EEIG)
- PATH
- Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)
Private Sector:
- Best Medical International Inc.
- F. Hoffmann-La Roche
- MDS Nordion
- Roche African Research Foundation
PACT Programmes
Assessing the Cancer Burden
What
An imPACT Review is a service offered to Member States to assess a country's readiness to develop and implement a long term radiation medicine capacity building plan within the framework of an NCCP.
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Where
To date, 85 Member States around the globe have requested imPACT reviews. Of these 85, full or partial reviews have been conducted in 46 countries.
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How
Conducting a cancer control assessment mission is a process that does not start and end with a mission. Each assessment consists of several stages that, together, span over the course of 6 to 18 months.
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Developing Global Partnerships
What
PACT utilises its international partnerships to mobilise new resources for health system development and the infrastructure that supports it. PMDS combine the individual strengths and resources of each partner and stakeholder to strengthen the fight against the cancer epidemic, and foster the establishment of sustainable cancer control capacity.
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Where
To date, PACT, in collaboration with WHO, has launched eight pilot projects within the framework of an evolving public-private partnership in Albania, Ghana, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, United Republic of Tanzania, Vietnam and Yemen.
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How
Over the course of three to five years, IAEA/PACT, WHO and other partners will assist PMDS national authorities in the design, funding, implementation and evaluation of each site. They will provide technical expertise and support government efforts in resource mobilisation for the implementation of the national cancer control programme.
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Promoting Cancer Control Training
What
The VUCCnet Pilot Project aims to contribute to ongoing efforts by Member States in Africa to address cancer control workforce shortages by promoting a combination of e-learning and traditional teaching approaches that provide effective, low cost educational opportunities to students in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Where
The project, funded by the Roche African Research Foundation, the US Government and the IAEA, is focusing initially on four Member States that represent the English-speaking component of VUCCnet-Africa: Ghana, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia.
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How
The first year of the VUCCnet Pilot culminated in a test exercise aimed at evaluating a functional prototype of the VUCCnet e-learning system within the four pilot African Member States. A total of 56 doctors and nurses from the four pilot Member States took part in the exercise.
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Making Radiotherapy Accessible
What
The Advisory Group on increasing access to Radiation Therapy (AGaRT) acts as a neutral facilitator to bring together radiotherapy users in low and middle income countries with major radiotherapy equipment manufacturers to ensure that developing countries' unique radiotherapy requirements are met by the equipment being produced.
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Where
AGaRT meets at the IAEA Headquarters in Vienna where radiotherapy users from Africa (Egypt, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia); Latin America (Brazil, Cuba); Asia & the Pacific (Jordan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam); and Europe (Albania, Serbia)
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How
AGaRT promotes increased access to radiation-based diagnostic and therapeutic technologies in developing countries by encouraging the industry to offer complete and integrated solutions that are safe, affordable, highly reliable and effective for low-resource settings.
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PACT Documents
- Want to know more about PACT? Read about us in our brochure [pdf]
- Versión en español [pdf]
- Version française [pdf]
- Arabic version [pdf]
- Read the latest from the WHO–IAEA Joint Programme [pdf]
Galleries
- 27 Sep 2010
PACT at GC54 - 24 Sep 2009
PACT at GC53