As a lifetime advocate for women and women’s health, I know that we must take on cervical cancer with the same passion and impatience that we did with maternal mortality and HIV. How to do this twenty years later is a question I am struggling with.
Author: Sally Cowal
Ambassador Sally G. Cowal is Senior Vice President, Global Cancer Control, at the American Cancer Society. Previously, she helped found the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and was founder, president and CEO of the Cuba Policy Foundation. She also served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago under Presidents George H.W. Bush and William J. Clinton as well as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, minister counselor for public affairs at the U.S. embassy in Mexico, and counselor for political affairs at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.