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In Liberia today, we marked the start of the country’s only radiotherapy facility, backed by @IAEAorg’s #RaysOfHope. Through #Atoms4Food, we are also working to boost food security, and we are helping protect Liberia’s coasts from ocean acidification.

Important moment today as we celebrated the groundbreaking of 🇱🇷 Liberia’s only radiotherapy facility with President Joseph Nyumah Boakai & Health Minister Louise Kpoto. @IAEAorg #RaysOfHope is helping establish it, starting with a mammography unit & training, with more to come.

Rwanda🇷🇼 has made progress in addressing preventable cancers nationwide, including enhancing cancer services, developing key governance documents & training professionals. However, challenges remain to delivering #CancerCare4All. More about our assessment: atoms.iaea.org/3FoGHOj

Chile’s universal health coverage and skilled workforce are assets to the country's national health system, say IAEA, @WHO and @IARCWHO experts, who recommend further investment in cancer care—including radiopharmaceutical production. 🔗 atoms.iaea.org/3IIbt6m #CancerCare4All

⚕️In April 2025, an #imPACT review team of experts from @IAEAorg, @WHO and @IARCWHO visited hospitals and health-related facilities to assess Chile’s national cancer control capacities. ➡️Read more: bit.ly/4kWMdqD

The IAEA made strides in advancing #CancerCare4All in Africa last week! Alongside the #RaysOfHope Forum in Ethiopia, @rafaelmgrossi visited Rwanda, Malawi, Kenya & Liberia to engage with leaders & make tangible contributions to their cancer strategies. 🔗 atoms.iaea.org/4lpPVKg

#RaysOfHope Forum wrapped this week showing steady progress in advancing #CancerCare4All. Partnerships are essential in our efforts to support countries in planning and implementing cancer control strategies, including through #imPACTReviews. We thank our donors and partners!

Congratulations Malawi🇲🇼on this milestone to increase access to #CancerCare4All! 👏 An #imPACTReview in 2012 helped to inform national cancer control planning and investment, and @iaeaorg #RaysOfHope supported the centre with key equipment.

Mozambique faces a growing cancer burden, worsened by the lack of infrastructure, manpower and access to lifesaving equipment. See how the IAEA, with @WHO and @IARCWHO, help countries like Mozambique improve #CancerCare4All through #RaysOfHope: atoms.iaea.org/3FOYHl0

In high-income countries, 90% of cancer patients have access to radiotherapy; in middle-income countries it’s 60%; but in low-income countries only 10% of patients benefit from this essential cancer care. The IAEA's #RaysOfHope is here to change those obscene discrepancies. ⤵️

Three years after launching @IAEAorg’s #RaysOfHope, I was proud to join African leaders in Addis Ababa 🇪🇹 to take stock and shape the path ahead. Even as the world faces many crises, Africa’s urgent cancer care needs remain and we are delivering real progress.

At the #RaysOfHope Forum, Assistant Minister @OokeditseL spotlighted Botswana’s first public radiotherapy centre, progress on safety and training, and the country’s long-standing cooperation with @IAEAorg as 🇧🇼 expands access to cancer care.

At #RaysOfHope Forum, 🇪🇹 @FMoHealth’s @MekdesDaba thanked @IAEAorg for its support and spotlighted major progress on cancer care: 5 cancer centers now have LINACs, local oncology training, expanded access to breast cancer treatment, a new nat’l cancer control plan, & more.

At the #RaysOfHope Forum, @MOH_Kenya’s @fnoluga reaffirmed Kenya’s commitment to expanding #CancerCare4All. With IAEA support, new LINACs in Nakuru and Mombasa are increasing access. Ongoing investment in infrastructure, training and nuclear medicine is saving lives across 🇰🇪.

“Cancer, like poverty and inequality, has no borders,” said 🇪🇹 Ethiopia’s Deputy PM @TemesgenTiru at IAEA #RaysOfHope Forum as he outlined steps to expand access to cancer care and nuclear science for health with the Agency’s support.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is building its first public radiotherapy centre, radiopharmacy centre and nuclear sciences school with @IAEAorg support. At #RaysOfHope Forum, Minister Kabanda called this a strategic step to strengthen 🇨🇩’s health system.

At the #RaysOfHope Forum, Lesotho’s Minister of Health, @SMochoboroane, reaffirmed the country’s commitment to expanding cancer care. With @IAEAorg’s support, 🇱🇸 is building its first Cancer Center and training oncology professionals.

Senegal has backed #RaysOfHope from the start, launching it with IAEA in 2022. At today’s Forum, @santegouv_sn’s @Dribrahimasy72 shared 🇸🇳 progress: investments in radiotherapy, training, research & nuclear medicine, with support from IAEA. First PET-CT scans expected in 2025.

A big step for childhood cancer care: today in Addis Ababa, signed a $4.5M partnership w/ @StJude, a leader in paediatric cancer research & treatment, during @IAEAorg's #RaysOfHope Forum. This is the largest contribution from a non-traditional partner to our cancer care work yet.

Just in from the IAEA #RaysOfHope Forum: we are partnering with @StJude to tackle inequality in global childhood cancer care. St. Jude is investing US $4.5 million for the IAEA to support countries expand access to paediatric radiotherapy. #CancerCare4All atoms.iaea.org/3I9nuBv