Wafaa Rashed, Chair and Founder of Pan-African PGS Education and Research Initiative, shared on LinkedIn:
“One minute for policy makers.
Our September campaign closes today. But the message must continue. For the past month, the PAPERI Bright Minds Series – Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 2026 has brought together voices from Africa and around the world. We heard from clinicians, researchers, public health experts, pharmacists, surgeons, and pediatric oncology nurses.
We explored childhood cancer from different perspectives, across different countries and disciplines. And now, as we close the campaign, we asked one final question:
‘What is the one message you would like to give to policy makers to improve the lives and outcomes of children with cancer?’
One minute, many voices, one shared responsibility, these are their messages. But this film is not only for policy makers, it is for every researcher who can generate evidence, every clinician who can improve care, every institution that can strengthen services, every professional who can teach, mentor and advocate, and every person who believes that a child’s future should not be determined by where they were born.
Awareness is the beginning – not the destination.
The question is no longer only: Are we aware of childhood cancer?
The question is: What will we do with what we know?
Let us turn: Knowledge into action, evidence into policy, collaboration into stronger systems, commitment into change. And above all: Let us protect the future of every child with cancer.
After watching, tell us: Which message spoke to you most strongly-and what is the one action you believe should follow?
Share this film with policy makers, health leaders, researchers, clinicians, nurses, advocates and colleagues in your network. A final word from PAPERI. The September campaign may be ending, the conversation must NOT, the need must NOT, and our responsibility must NOT. For every child, for every family, for the future.
African Voices Connecting the World.”
You can also read: Collaborative Efforts to Improve Survival in Childhood Cancer in Africa – CANCaRe Africa.
