Every year some 500.000 women worldwide get cervical cancer. More than 600 women in the world die every day from cervical cancer, mostly in the developing world. Cervical cancer is a poverty related disease and that is why in developing countries cervical cancer is the leading cause of death among women with cancer.  It generally strikes women with young children who are playing a crucial economic and social role in their families and communities.

But unlike many cancers, cervical cancer can easily be prevented. Providing women screening services and when necessary treatment, this devastating disease can be stopped. While most women in industrialized countries have access to cervical cancer preventive services, women in the developing world generally do not.

The Female Cancer Program Foundation supports the fights against this disease in developing countries. Together with local partners in Suriname and Indonesia, the FCP Foundation helps the setting up of cost effective screenings programmes in low resource areas.

Besides the preventing programmes In Indonesia , Suriname and South Africa the Female Cancer Program Foundation is also supporting complementary research studies which focus on the durable solution of a vaccine.