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Scientific Conference: Treatment and Survival from Cancer in SSA

Multi-national Scientific Conference 2022: Treatment and Survival from Cancer in sub-Saharan Africa: Guideline Adherence

A 5-days scientific conference attended by more than 90 dedicates from over 30 African countries took place in Moshi Tanzania May 2022. The conference was hosted by the Kilimanjaro Cancer Registry, organised by the team at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the African Cancer Registry Network, funded by the VolkswagenStiftung Foundation. 

AFCRN

The African Cancer Registry Network (AFCRN) was formally inaugurated on 1st March, 2012, and succeeded and expanded the activities of the East African Cancer Registry Network (EARN), which had been established in January 2011, thanks to a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (USA).

AFCRN started as a project of the Cancer Registry Programme of the International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research (INCTR) in 2009. It is supported financially through The Challenge Fund, a registered UK charity (charity number 1079181). The Challenge Fund in turn receives donations designated to support cancer registry activities in low and middle income countries.

AFCRN aims to improve the effectiveness of cancer surveillance in sub Saharan Africa by providing expert evaluation of current problems and technical support to remedy identified barriers, with long-term goals of strengthening health systems and creating research platforms for the identification of problems, priorities, and targets for intervention. Support to AFCRN is a recognition of the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases, and especially cancer, in the continent, and the need for adequate surveillance as a fundamental part of any rational programme for cancer control.

Since September 2012, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), in the framework of its Global Initiative for Cancer Registry Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (GICR), has partnered with AFCRN to provide a network Regional Hub for cancer registration in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The role of a regional hub is in:

  • providing technical and scientific support to countries;
  • delivering tailored training in population-based cancer registration and use of data;
  • advocating the cause of cancer registration in the region and facilitating setting up associations and networks of cancer registries; and
  • coordinating international research projects and disseminating findings

The role of AFCRN is provision of a secretariat and coordinating centre for the Network, which assists in implementing the Programme of Activities.

 

Current Network Members

Advisory Group

Contact Us

For all enquiries about AFCRN, including training and research collaboration enquiries, please contact the AFCRN secretariat:

 

INCTR,
African Cancer Registry Programme,
Prama House,
267 Banbury Road,
Oxford,
OX2 7HT,
UK.

 

Email: admin@afcrn.org

Secretariat

 

Dr Max Parkin
Co-ordinator
Email: mparkin@afcrn.org

Mrs Biying Liu
Administrative assistant
Email: bliu@afcrn.org

Advisory Group

The activities of the African network are guided by the advisory group (steering committee). The current members are:

  • Dr Jean-Marie Dangou (Regional Office for Africa, World Health Organisation)
  • Dr Anne Korir (regional representative for Africa, International Association of Cancer Registries)
  • Dr Freddie Bray (Head, Section of Cancer Surveillance, International Agency for Research on Cancer)
  • Dr Sonali Johnson (Head, Knowledge, Advocacy and Policy, Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)).

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