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PACT was launched as an IAEA initiative in 2004. Its vision is to build a global public-private partnership to help low and middle income countries mobilize new resources and funding for cancer prevention, cure and care to provide equitable access to all cancer services for their population.
Many organizations are working on cancer control in the developing world. But, all too often, lack of coordination amongst them leads to duplication of efforts and sub-optimal use of limited resources. Since the IAEA plays a significant role in providing technical assistance to countries to initiate their cancer therapy centres, it has often sought to encourage a stronger coordination among the major players in the field. From its inception, PACT has endeavoured to facilitate communication among the various organizations so that they may, each with their own area of expertise, work closely together to provide support for integrated and sustainable cancer control programmes to developing countries covering all essential components.
Through a global public-private partnership the organizations involved will also work together to assess cancer needs in developing countries, help them to define national plans for cancer prevention and control and raise funding to improve conditions and outcomes for cancer patients by focusing on timely, planned and balanced investments to maximize the beneficial impact of radiotherapy and all other interventions. In this way, limited resources will be used in the most cost-effective way and millions of unnecessary deaths could be prevented.
