The Road to the SDGs

X A Call for Innovation was launched through the IsDB Engage platform, which works to accelerate economic and social progress in the developing world through the power of STI. Applications were received from 36 countries and selected by the IsDB Scientific Advisory Board. Each of the winners received US$ 50,000 to help them advance their projects and contribute to saving women’s lives. X The winners of the Call for Innovation are: – The City Cancer Challenge Foundation, whose proposal will increase access to quality care for women with breast cancer, and help with training healthcare professionals to offer a multidisciplinary approach to cancer care – The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, with an innovative screening toolkit that will have a sustainable impact on the early detection of breast and cervical cancer in low-resource, rural coastal areas – The innovator Virasoft Inc. whose app technology ViMo will help train pathologists for consultations while TelePath application will give pathologists with less experience the opportunity to share images and videos with experts – The Cervical Cancer Prevention Programme, whose socially innovative proposal aims to establish a community-based screening, treatment and vaccination activities revolving around mother-daughter relationships. X In September 2020, IsDB held an event as part of the IAEA General Conference, to take stock of achievements made since the launch of the partnership initiative. The event outlined how IsDB and the IAEA complement each other to advance comprehensive cancer diagnostics and treatment for women with breast and cervical cancer in common LMICs. X The winners of the Call for Innovation were announced at the same event. INVESTMENT X The initiative has so far raised more than US$ 144 million, broken down as follows: IsDB: US$ 80 million from OCR (for the Uzbekistan Project over 5 years); IAEA: US$ 7.78 million grant; MCs: US$ 51.28 million (including US$ 41.87 million from the Government of Uzbekistan); ISFD: US$ 2 million grant over 4 years; Non MCs: US$ 2.86 million grant (Belgium, France, Monaco, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States); Private sector: US$ 316,132 (Varian, Elekta); Philanthropists: US$ 260,000 grant (Direct Aid). T H E P U B L I C - P R I V A T E - P H I L A N T H R O P I C P A R T N E R S H I P F O R P E O P L E Expected to contribute to saving over 1 million women’s lives from breast cancer and 3.7 million women’s lives from cervical cancer over the next decade in common MCs F U N D S M O B I L I S E D More than US$144 million [ 133 ] T H E R O A D T O T H E S D G s | P R O G R E S S A N D A C H I E V E M E N T S