{"entity":{"id":"benin-ministry-of-health","kind":"institution","name":"Ministère de la Santé, Bénin","aka":["Ministry of Health, Benin"],"tldr":"Benin's health ministry. Its cancer plan for 2024 to 2028 notes that radiotherapy was not yet available in the country, and in December 2025 it added the vaccine against cervical cancer to routine vaccination for girls aged 9 to 14.","summary":"The ministry's Plan national de lutte contre les cancers au Bénin 2024 to 2028 (January 2024) says it set up a population-based cancer registry in Cotonou in 2014 under the national non-communicable disease programme, with a second in Parakou in 2017. It describes chemotherapy organised within each speciality in the absence of medical oncologists, blood cancers treated mainly at CNHU-HKM and CHUD Ouémé-Plateau, childhood cancers at those two hospitals, a gynaecological oncology unit at CHU-MEL, and no radiotherapy yet, with a cancer centre including radiotherapy and nuclear medicine under construction at Abomey-Calavi. On 2 December 2025 the minister launched a national HPV vaccination campaign for girls aged 9 to 14, integrating the vaccine into the expanded programme on immunisation. The coordinates are an approximate Cotonou city point.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"Plan national de lutte contre les cancers au Bénin 2024 to 2028 (January 2024, PDF via ICCP)","url":"https://www.iccp-portal.org/sites/default/files/2025-11/B%C3%A9nin_PNLC_2024_2028.pdf"},{"label":"Ministère de la Santé, Bénin: national HPV vaccination campaign (December 2025)","url":"https://sante.gouv.bj/article/actualites/prevention-du-cancer-du-col-de-luterus-le-benin-lance-la-campagne-nationale-contre-le-hpv-827"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["cervical","breast-cancer","prostate"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["abmed-benin","cotonou-cancer-registry","parakou-cancer-registry","cnhu-hkm-cotonou","chud-oueme-plateau"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Cotonou","country":"BJ","lat":6.368,"lng":2.425,"institutionType":"government","website":"https://sante.gouv.bj/","programs":["Plan national de lutte contre les cancers 2024 to 2028","HPV vaccination for girls aged 9 to 14 (from December 2025)","Population-based cancer registries in Cotonou and Parakou"]},"route":"/institutions/benin-ministry-of-health/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"breast-cancer","kind":"cancer","name":"Breast cancer (all types)","route":"/cancers/breast-cancer/"},{"id":"cervical","kind":"cancer","name":"Cervical cancer","route":"/cancers/cervical/"},{"id":"prostate","kind":"cancer","name":"Prostate cancer","route":"/cancers/prostate/"}],"institution":[{"id":"abmed-benin","kind":"institution","name":"Agence Béninoise du Médicament et des autres produits de Santé (ABMed)","route":"/institutions/abmed-benin/"},{"id":"chud-oueme-plateau","kind":"institution","name":"Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Départemental de l'Ouémé-Plateau (CHUD-OP)","route":"/institutions/chud-oueme-plateau/"},{"id":"cnhu-hkm-cotonou","kind":"institution","name":"Centre National Hospitalier Universitaire Hubert Koutoukou Maga (CNHU-HKM)","route":"/institutions/cnhu-hkm-cotonou/"},{"id":"cotonou-cancer-registry","kind":"institution","name":"Registre des Cancers de Cotonou","route":"/institutions/cotonou-cancer-registry/"},{"id":"parakou-cancer-registry","kind":"institution","name":"Registre des Cancers de Parakou","route":"/institutions/parakou-cancer-registry/"}]}}