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One of the IAEA’s newest Member States, the Republic of Guinea, requested the IAEA’s urgent support to address its growing cancer burden. In response, the IAEA, the World Health Organization and the International Agency for Research on Cancer sent a team of international experts to the country in December 2023 to carry out a comprehensive imPACT Review. Read more →
Djibouti Steps Up Plans for its First National Cancer Centre
Plans are well underway to build a national cancer centre in Djibouti – the first of its kind in a country that currently has no access to radiotherapy, a life-saving treatment estimated to help in approximately 50 per cent of all cancer cases. Read more →
IAEA Director General and President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Celebrate Cancer Care Milestone
The IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi met President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Thursday, after laying a foundation stone of the country’s first public radiotherapy centre. Read more →
IAEA Conducts First Official Mission to Comoros
The Comoros is increasing its cooperation with the IAEA and plans to use nuclear technology to address challenges in human and animal health. In November 2022, the IAEA conducted its first official mission to the Union of Comoros since the African island became an IAEA Member State in 2020. Read more →
Partnership, Capacity Building Accelerates Development in LDCs
An IAEA side-event, held on the margins of the First Preparatory Committee Meeting (PrepCom1) of the 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5), brought together four Ambassadors and Agency counterparts to showcase results and impact achieved through the technical cooperation (TC) programme to build human and institutional capacities in LDCs. Read more →
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