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New Delhi: India has pledged $7.5 million for cancer testing, screening, and diagnostics as part of the newly launched Quad Cancer Moonshot, a groundbreaking initiative to help end cancer in the Indo-Pacific region..
The Quad Cancer Moonshot is an extension of the US Cancer Moonshot initiative started in 2016..
This is part of Indias $10-million commitment to support the World Health Organization (WHO)-led Global Initiative on Digital Health and includes offering technical support for the use of its National NCD portal, which tracks long-term population-based data on cancer screening and care...
We are hoping that the latest pledge by the country to work towards tackling cervical cancer in the Indo-Pacific region will also expedite the HPV vaccinations launch in India, said a senior scientist with the Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research (NICPR), oncondition of anonymity...
Officials in the Union health ministry told ThePrint that a population-based initiative for prevention, control and screening for common NCDsdiabetes, hypertension and common cancers, oral, breast and cervical cancerhas been rolled out in the country since 2019 under the National Health Mission and also as a part of comprehensive primary health care...
