Incredible Impacts: Union for International Cancer Control — Transcript

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2. 0:07the mission of UICC is to basically
3. 0:10bring the world together to address
4. 0:12cancer globally reduce the cancer burden
5. 0:14to address inequity to make sure that
6. 0:16wherever you get cancer you have a
7. 0:18reasonable chance of surviving it but
8. 0:19also to make sure the cancers on the
9. 0:21global health and development agenda
10. 0:22well when cancer leaders summit is just
11. 0:24one event that we run during a year
12. 0:25which actually takes our mission forward
13. 0:27it's the one time when we bring together
14. 0:28the global elite in cancer and global
15. 0:31health to talk about specific topics
16. 0:32which are relevant to cancer and also
17. 0:34the global health agenda so we bring
18. 0:36them together in a different location
19. 0:37around the world to make sure that we
20. 0:38talk about something which is relevant
21. 0:40to them so when they go back to their
22. 0:41countries they can do something about it
23. 0:42when the Mexico well cancer leaders
24. 0:44summit was innovative because we tried
25. 0:45to do two things
26. 0:46while more swaps you run the normal
27. 0:48summit and bring in the global health
28. 0:50leaders together but secondly to have a
29. 0:51large impact on the region to arrange a
30. 0:54number of sub meetings around the event
31. 0:55leading young leaders including leaders
32. 0:57of cancer organizations leaders with
33. 0:59cities and brought them together on the
34. 1:01sidelines of the summit but integrated
35. 1:03into it so that when they left they had
36. 1:05enough information and they were
37. 1:06inspired to do something in the region
38. 1:08we measure the success under a number of
39. 1:10criteria the basics like were the right
40. 1:12people there the quality of the speakers
41. 1:14the number of VIPs who attended how many
42. 1:17countries we do all of that but to be
43. 1:18honest we're looking for more important
44. 1:20things like if we set out for example in
45. 1:22Mexico to help Mexico develop or give a
46. 1:24commitment to a national cancer control
47. 1:26plan did we achieve that now that will
48. 1:28affect the lives of millions of people
49. 1:29in the future so those are the sort of
50. 1:31things that we measure to make sure that
51. 1:33our impact is long-term and not just
52. 1:35having a great event where people leave
53. 1:36thinking they were inspired Mexico has
54. 1:38really taken on board the issue of
55. 1:40cancer more so that's ever done before
56. 1:42working with the local sub society the
57. 1:44government and private sector as well
58. 1:46it's actually made a commitment to a
59. 1:48global campaign that we've launched
60. 1:49called treatment for all now what that
61. 1:50means is that the whole country sets out
62. 1:53an objective over a longer period of
63. 1:55time using the support of the
64. 1:56international community like myself and
65. 1:57my team to actually improve the
66. 1:59treatment that anyone gets in that
67. 2:01country when they develop cancer now
68. 2:02that is a major legacy so I'm really
69. 2:04happy that Mexico is a leader not just
70. 2:06in the region but actually globally to
71. 2:08be one of the first countries to sign
72. 2:10to treatment for all
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