Health

Urgent Call to Action: Breast Cancer Needs Recognition in 2025 UN Declaration

2025-07-16

Author: Rajesh

Breast cancer is often overlooked, and a recent oversight in the zero draft of the 2025 United Nations Political Declaration on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Mental Health highlights this troubling reality. Millions of women in Southeast Asia, particularly in Malaysia, are facing a public health crisis that cannot be ignored.

The Galen Centre for Health and Social Policy is making a powerful appeal to the UN and its member states: include breast cancer as a priority in the final declaration set to be adopted this September during the high-level meeting on NCDs.

Malaysia's Breast Cancer Crisis