The desire of Her Majesty, The Royal Grandmother to save Bhutanese women from the suffering caused by cervical cancer inspired ACCF to pursue this unique partnership with the Royal Government of Bhutan’s Ministry of Health and Merck Sharpe & Dohme Corp to achieve an extraordinary common goal and create an example for every nation of the powerful results possible for communities when organizations with different strengths work together in the right partnership.

“World Health Organisation (WHO) data shows that cervical cancer kills more than 270,000 women throughout the world each year and 80 percent of these women are from developing countries,” Mr Tooma said.  “Every two minutes a woman will die from cervical cancer, most of these deaths should be preventable.”  The WHO forecasts that deaths from cervical cancer could almost double in Bhutan by 2025 without a program like this.

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Background

• In 2006, Brisbane based Professor Ian Frazer (currently ACCF’s Scientific Advisor) was named Australian of the Year for his research contribution to making this world’s first ever anti-cancer vaccine possible.
• In 2007 The Australian Government commenced a Gardasil™ vaccination program for all school girl aged 12 to 18.
• Now around 60 million doses of Gardasil™ have been administered world -wide and it is considered to be safe and effective.