Annoh-Dompreh leads push for Africa’s first continental cancer law

The Committee was informed that the draft legislation, developed under the Africans Beating Cancer Model Law initiative by Partners for Patients NGO in collaboration with the Pan-African Parliament’s Permanent Health Committee, will now move through parliamentary debate before being presented to national legislatures for domestication.

The Chairman of the Pan-African Parliament’s Committee on Health, Labour and Social Affairs, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, is leading efforts to develop what could become Africa’s first harmonised legal framework on cancer prevention, treatment, financing and research across all 55 African Union member states.

Addressing members of the Pan-African Parliament during the Committee’s statutory sitting, the Minority Chief Whip said the initiative marks the beginning of a continental legislative process that will culminate in the adoption of the Africans Beating Cancer (ABC) Model Law.