African Cancer Organization

(ACO)
Ghana

About Us

Who we are, what we do, how we

do it and how we can do it better
with you!

January 2014, Accra

Organization Details
The African Cancer Organization (ACO) is a voluntary non-governmental, non-profit, nonpolitical, non-sectarian charitable cancer organization which was formed in 2008 to control
cancer and its effects on the African continent.

Vision
The vision of ACO is to increase cancer awareness about primary prevention and early
detection in a bid to phase out the currently prevailing advanced stages of cancers in Africa.

Mission
ACO is dedicated to reducing the impact of cancer in Africa through the provision of effective
and feasible public awareness interventions aimed at reducing cancer incidence, suffering
and mortality.

Core Operations
Cancer Prevention ACO promote primary prevention of cancers using linguistically
appropriate and culturally sensitive information, education and communication materials.
ACO promote secondary cancer prevention by organizing sustainable community-based
mass cancer screening to help detect cancers at early stages where cure is often possible.
Cancer Advocacy ACO involve people from the general public as a fundamental political
and economic group to systematically change cancer policies and programs to reflect the
changing needs of individuals and communities. ACO forge stronger linkages between
individuals, organizations and governments to raise funds to campaign against cancer.
Cancer Research - ACO promote the establishment of population-based cancer registries to
collect, store and analyze data on persons with cancer in order to provide essential
information on the incidence, prevalence, trends, mortality, and survival rates which is
required to help develop a realistic and sustainable cancer control plan.

Core Values
ACO believes in bottom-line responsibility and transparency in all our dealings.

Programs
ACO Cancer Control Programs, tailored to the socio-economic and cultural context, is to
ensure that cancer information is available to everyone and also every Ghanaian who is
eligible has access to cancer screening. This we believe will help prevent people from
getting exposed to avoidable cancer risk factors and also downstage cancers by earlydetecting the disease at stages where cure is often possible, which will ultimately help avert

the currently prevailing high incidence of cancers in Ghana. The following programs outline
areas of priorities:
1. Cancer Information Services and Patient Navigation
2. Community-Based Outreach Missions (Mass Education and Screening)
3. Surveillance Cancer Research and Cancer Registration

Contact Us
Cancer Information Office (Hometek)
2nd Floor, San Francisco Plaza
Spintex Road, Accra
Telephone:+233 302 818 370
Mobile:+233 208 850 420
Email: acoghana@gmail.com
Website: www.acoghana.org, www.africancancer.org
Follow on Twitter/LinkedIn/Facebook: /africancancer
Banker: Merchant Bank
Accounts Number: 000090100369911