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World No Tobacco Day 2020 Award sent from Dr. Tedros Adhanom, World Health Organization Director General from Geneva Head Office, Switzerland  officially handed over to Mr. Wondu Bekele Woldemariam, Executive Director of Mathiwos Wondu-YeEthiopia Cancer Society/MWECS/...

Available evidences indicate breast cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers in Ethiopia among women and account for 30.2% registered cases in the country. Vitally considering the growing breast cancer burden in Ethiopia MWECS established partnership with The DEAR...

BMSF supported Multinational Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Control Project in Ethiopia finally successfully completed & Ethiopia became the fifth country in Africa to implement the project. Mathiwos Wondu-YeEthiopia Cancer Society/MWECS/ as a lead partner signed...

Protecting youth from tobacco industry manipulation and preventing them from tobacco and nicotine use is this year campaign statement. In response to the tobacco and related industries’ systematic, aggressive and sustained tactics to attract a new generation of...

Mr. Wondu Bekele Woldemariam, Executive Director of our society is nominated by the World Health Organization as one of the six World No Tobacco Day 2020 awards - winners for the Africa region. This award like many of its preceding, indicative & recognition of...

Mathiwos Wondu-YeEthiopia Cancer Society/MWECS/ secured 5,000USD financial support grant, from our partner Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation/BMSF/ intended to support effort being made to contain Covid-19 here in Ethiopia. Thanks to the support, we managed to procure...