Measuring survival, driving change: advancing equity through the WHO Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer
World Health Organization
May 2026 · World Health Organization
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This report highlights global progress of the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer (GICC) in addressing one of the starkest health inequities of our time: the survival gap for children with cancer between high-income and low- and middle-income countries. While survival rates exceed 80% in many high-income settings, they remain below 30% in some low-resource countries.
The GICC launched in 2018, brings together stakeholders from all sectors to improve survival, reduce suffering, and strengthen childhood cancer programmes worldwide through the implementation of the CureAll framework. The report examines the unique challenges of diagnosis, treatment, and survival across regions among children and adolescents. It also highlights the critical role of high-quality population-based cancer registries in generating the data needed for evidence-informed policy-making and monitoring progress.
The report also presents for the first time WHO country-comparable five-year survival estimates for lymphoid leukaemia across 194 Member States. These findings reveal persistent inequities in outcomes while demonstrating how targeted, person-centred interventions under the CureAll framework can drive improvement.
By combining new global childhood cancer survival estimates with evidence of country-level implementation progress, the report provides a critical baseline to track progress toward the GICC target of at least 60% survival by 2030 and calls for continued investment in data systems, cancer care, and equitable access to quality services for children and adolescents with cancer worldwide.
The GICC launched in 2018, brings together stakeholders from all sectors to improve survival, reduce suffering, and strengthen childhood cancer programmes worldwide through the implementation of the CureAll framework. The report examines the unique challenges of diagnosis, treatment, and survival across regions among children and adolescents. It also highlights the critical role of high-quality population-based cancer registries in generating the data needed for evidence-informed policy-making and monitoring progress.
The report also presents for the first time WHO country-comparable five-year survival estimates for lymphoid leukaemia across 194 Member States. These findings reveal persistent inequities in outcomes while demonstrating how targeted, person-centred interventions under the CureAll framework can drive improvement.
By combining new global childhood cancer survival estimates with evidence of country-level implementation progress, the report provides a critical baseline to track progress toward the GICC target of at least 60% survival by 2030 and calls for continued investment in data systems, cancer care, and equitable access to quality services for children and adolescents with cancer worldwide.
This report highlights global progress of the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer (GICC) in addressing one of the starkest health inequities of our time: the survival gap for children with cancer between high-income and low- and middle-income countries. While survival rates exceed 80% in many ...
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