Pink October Campaign
National Cancer Control Foundation Taiz
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Pink October Campaign
What is Pink October:
An international campaign that paints the world pink every October to raise awareness about the importance of early detection of breast cancer.
The Event:
The National Cancer Control Foundation in Taiz launches this campaign to raise awareness about breast cancer and to increase the level of awareness among women to reduce the spread of breast cancer and increase early detection rates.
Vision:
Leadership and excellence in providing the best awareness and educational programs to reduce the spread of breast cancer in Yemen.
Mission:
The National Cancer Control Foundation – Taiz strives to provide the best awareness and educational programs for all segments of society through various awareness and media means, self-examination, and examination by modern diagnostic devices, and through specialized and distinguished medical staff that meets the needs of beneficiaries in Taiz city and its countryside.
Campaign Objectives
Reduce the spread of breast cancer
Reduce the mortality rate and complications resulting from breast cancer due to delayed treatment.
Increase the awareness level among women about the importance of early detection of breast cancer by conveying correct health information through various awareness methods.
Train women on how to perform self-examination
Activate the referral system from all hospitals and medical centers to Al-Amal Center for Oncology Treatment for suspected cases.
Pink Clinic
In 2024, the Pink Clinic provided clinical examination and ultrasound examination services to 718 women, and 26 cases were suspected and referred, and it also provided awareness services on self-examination to women during waiting.
Mobile Clinic
The mobile clinic represents an added difference to the awareness campaign as the Foundation coordinated with the Health and Population Office in Taiz to go down to the countryside to provide early detection services to women, due to the distance of the Pink Clinic from women and the difficulty of access to it due to distance, poverty of families, and in 2024, the mobile clinic implemented four campaigns in four rural hospitals and one campaign in Al-Saeed University, visited 12 schools and universities, conducted awareness lectures on self-examination and the importance of early detection of breast cancer, distributed awareness brochures, and directed them to go to the Pink Clinic for early detection of breast cancer, and 1500 male and female students benefited from these lectures.