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World Cancer Day
WORLD CANCER DAY is a leading international awareness day, held every February 4, and is a global uniting initiative.
By raising worldwide awareness, improving education and catalysing personal, collective and government action, we are all working together to reimagine a world where millions of preventable cancer deaths are saved and access to lifesaving cancer treatment and care is equitable for all no matter who you are or where you live.
Created in 2000, World Cancer Day has grown into a positive movement for everyone, everywhere to unite under one voice to face one of our greatest challenges in history.
Each year, hundreds of activities and events take place around the world, gathering communities, organisations and individuals in schools, businesses, hospitals, marketplaces, parks, community halls, places of worship in the streets and online acting as a powerful reminder that we all have a role to play in reducing the global impact of cancer.
While we live in a time of awe inspiring advancements in cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment, many of us who seek cancer care hit barriers at every turn. Income, education, geographical location and discrimination based on ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability and lifestyle are just a few of the factors that can nega tively affect care.
So this year’s World Cancer Day’s theme, ‘Close the Care Gap’, is all about celebrating progress in its many forms that enable more people to seek and receive the care they need and deserve.
It is about providing the momentum to fuel our fight for fairness. We will build stronger alliances and innovative new collaborations; we will mobilise friends, family, co workers and communities because we know that united, we are stronger.
THE end of the global pandemic has brought change across most sectors in Spain including the economy, tourism and now residency figures, according to data released on Thursday, January 26.
Data from Spain’s national agency for statistics, the INE revealed that the country recorded 478,990 new residents in the first six months of 2022 alone. During these first six months, 220,443 people also immigrated from Spain, leaving a record-breaking net migration figure of 258,547.
Another fascinating trend revealed by the data was that more women than men chose to move to Spain dur- ing 2022. Sociologists say this is due to higher rates of emigration from Latin America, where women tend to emigrate instead of Asian and North African migration trends which tend to see men emigrate before reuniting with their families at a later stage.
Immigration rates have increased since pandemic.
