October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Learn the signs and take the pledge
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October 2026 · Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Early is everything.

Finding breast cancer early changes how the story ends. This October, EquiAccess is sharing the signs, asking people to speak up, and helping bring ten thousand people together to march against breast cancer across Africa.

Take the pledge Know the signs

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in 164 of 186 countries. Where a woman lives still decides how her story ends.

2.4Mwomen diagnosed in 2024
694Kdeaths in 2024
1 in 20women worldwide, in a lifetime

Sources: WHO breast cancer fact sheet, 2026. IARC, Nature Medicine, 2025.

Four ways to be part of it

A smiling doctor in a white coat with a stethoscope
Learn Know the signs Five changes to look for
Women gathered together at a community event
Understand Why it matters Same disease, different endings
March The march of 10,000 Ten thousand people, one message
Four friends laughing together
Speak up Take the pledge Get your story card
Open hands holding a pink ribbon

Give

Help ten thousand people march.

Your gift goes to FAMSA, the Federation of African Medical Students' Associations, for the march against breast cancer across Africa and the early-detection outreach that goes with it.

Donate to FAMSA (opens in a new tab)

Know your normal. Check on her. Say it out loud.

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