In 2019 the government of Malaysia made a public commitment to their population to eliminate cervical cancer which despite being largely preventable, is the third most common cancer among Malaysian women with an incidence rate of 10.5 per 100,000 population in 2018. This commitment was reiterated by the Deputy Minister of Health at the parliament a year later.
Malaysia was one of the countries that proposed a draft resolution Cervical cancer prevention and control: accelerating the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem on World Cancer Day (4th of February) 2020 (EB146/CONF./5). Anticipating the 90:70:90 three pillar approach of the WHO Global Strategy to accelerate the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem, Malaysia reviewed its current programmes and services and the impact which they were having.