A dedicated global financing window for cancer, modelled on the Global Fund
Cancer kills more people in poorer countries than HIV, TB and malaria combined, but has no global fund. A pooled fund for diagnosis, essential medicines and radiotherapy would change what ministries can afford to build.
Development assistance for health has largely bypassed cancer. Despite rising burden in LMICs, there is no multilateral financing instrument for cancer services comparable to the Global Fund or Gavi. A financing window, whether a new fund or a cancer envelope inside an existing one, would co-finance national cancer control plans with conditions on registries, essential medicine availability, and palliative care. The design questions are governance, co-financing ratios, and how to avoid crowding out domestic spending.
- Most of the world has almost no cancer care · Seven in ten cancer deaths happen in low- and middle-income countries, where radiotherapy, pathology, surgery and drugs are scarce.
- Funding follows fashion, not burden · Money goes to the cancers and questions that are easy or popular, not the ones that kill most or where a dollar would do most.
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not linked directly; found by shared links- IdeaMake a population cancer registry a condition of every cancer aid programme
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- IdeaAn open global model of cancer workforce supply and demand by country
Shares GLOBOCAN / Global Cancer Observatory, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO).
- IdeaPut the essential palliative care package into every universal health coverage benefit list
Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
- IdeaRing-fence a fifth of national cancer research money for metastasis
Shares GLOBOCAN / Global Cancer Observatory, Funding follows fashion, not burden.
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- IdeaA public map of trial deserts to steer where new sites open
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- IdeaEliminate infection-caused cancers: HPV, hepatitis B and C, H. pylori and EBV
Shares International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), Most of the world has almost no cancer care.