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Manifesto for global women's health

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Women's health is more than reproductive health. Why does this phrase still need to be repeated? This commentary highlights the urgent need to encourage more women to lead, research, and educate to move beyond stereotypes and to ensure we push forward in improving the lives of women everywhere.

Now, more than ever, it is critical that priorities in global women's health advance beyond reproductive and maternal health. Indeed, a few high-profile calls to action have drawn attention to other major threats to the health of girls and women. For instance in 2016, on World Cancer Day, the former United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki Moon called for “the elimination of cervical cancer” (Ref. 1) as a public health priority, and a feminist commentary by Michelle Bachelet, the Honourable President of Chile, entitled 'Women, power, and the cancer divide' (Ref. 2) accompanied a three-part series in The Lancet, 'Health, equity, and women's cancers'. In 2017, leaders from the WHO, The Global Fund, the World Bank, the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), and other organizations urged priority actions to address the unmet challenges of cervical cancer3.

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  2. Department of Population Health, NYU School of Medicine, 227 East 30th Street, New York, 10016, New York, USA

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