Global Task Force on Cancer Care & Control in Developing Countries

Gore calls for a Magna Carta to preserve net neutrality.

Al Gore: Snowden Revealed Crimes 'Way More Serious' Than Any He Committed Former Vice President Al Gore, who on Tuesday said Edward Snowden performed "an important service." (Photo: Environmental Defence Canada/cc/flickr)Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on Tuesday said that Edward Snowden's revelations showed the NSA's "threat to democracy" and revealed violations by th…

NY TImes article on the Cancer Divide highlights the disparities in our own backyard.

Tackling a Racial Gap in Breast Cancer Survival Decades of awareness campaigns and advances in treatment have improved survival rates for women with breast cancer in the United States, but the majority of those gains have bypassed black women.

Every year, tens of millions of people—including 5.5 million terminal cancer patients and 1 million end-stage HIV/AIDS patients—suffer needlessly in moderate to severe pain. Help end this injustice and alleviate suffering worldwide. Sign the Prague Charter to recognize palliative care as a human right.

The Prague Charter: Relieving suffering A right for palliative care Access to palliative care is a legal obligation, as acknowledged by United Nations conventions, and has been advocated as a human right by international associations, based on the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. In cases where patie...

Is Financial Protection for Cancer Enough? | Translational Global Health Saying that cancer is an expensive disease is an understatement, particularly in such low and middle income countries (LMICs) as India. According to estimates from 2004, one inpatient admission for cancer in India can cost 40-50% and 80-90% of annual per capita income in public and private hospitals...

Help fight cervical cancer in the Caribbean! Visit this page and view the petition!

Healthy Caribbean Coalition The Healthy Caribbean Coalition is pursuing a strategy to increase awareness of Chronic Diseases in the Caribbean and what can be done to tackle them.

Felicia M. Knaul, our Secretariat Co-Chair, with Yuvraj Singh, indian cricketer and lung cancer survivor. Both of them fighting to close the cancer divide.