Italy | Susan G. Komen Italia

Susan G. Komen Italia is a non-profit organisation that has been fighting breast cancer since 2000. It was the first International Affiliate of Susan G. Komen®, the world’s largest non-profit funder of breast cancer research outside of the U.S. federal government. The mission of Komen Italia is to eradicate breast cancer as a life-threatening disease through promoting prevention, supporting women facing the disease, and advancing the quality of treatment.

The Caravan of Prevention

The Caravan of Prevention is the National Itinerant Women’s Health Promotion Program of Komen Italy that offers a wider public free activities to raise awareness and prevent the main oncological diseases of gender. 

In particular, the Caravan is aimed at women who live in conditions of social and economic hardship and who therefore devote less attention to their health. 

The protection of women’s health has important repercussions on the well-being of the community, for the fundamental role of women in the family, work and social spheres.

The Caravan of Prevention has made stops in 17 Italian regions, offering over 50,000 free medical services in places and realities where prevention comes with much more difficulty and where you have little time to worry about such a valuable asset as health.