Pink Ribbon Foundation to launch in the United Arab Emirates.

On Wednesday, 21 October 2026, PinkRibbon International (Pink Ribbon Inc., New York) will formally launch the Pink Ribbon Foundation – United Arab Emirates at the Four Seasons Hotel Abu Dhabi at Al Maryah Island — a national affiliate dedicated to research funding, prevention, early detection and awareness for breast cancer and other female gender-related cancers.

Guests will include representatives of government, health professionals, corporate and private investors, and distinguished guests. The launch will be held during the Abu Dhabi Future Health Summit 2026 (20–22 October 2026), hosted by Future Health – A Global Initiative by Abu Dhabi and the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi. The Summit's 2026 theme, "To Sense is to Predict", speaks directly to the Foundation's purpose: identify risk earlier, prevent disease where possible, and fund the research that changes outcomes.

The 2032 mission

The Foundation will open with a six-year mission: by 2032, to help the United Arab Emirates set the global standard for prevention, early detection and research — and to accelerate the science that will find a cure.

• Prevention first — breast, ovarian, cervical and endometrial cancers
• Programmes that save lives — awareness, education, early detection
• Research that finds a cure — 85% of donations to science

A minimum of 85 per cent of donations is directed to health programmes, prevention, early detection and the search for a cure. Of direct donations received by PinkRibbon International in New York, 100 per cent of that 85 per cent is allocated to scientific research programmes.

Aligned with national policy

The Emirates strategy is designed to sit in line with the UAE National Policy for Improving Women's Health, which sets a clear cancer-mortality target: reduce female cancer deaths to 23.24 per 100,000 women, reduce overall female mortality to 62.77 per 100,000, and lower lifestyle-related health risks such as obesity by three per cent. It promotes earlier screening — regular mammograms from age 40, or earlier where risk factors require it.

In Abu Dhabi, the Foundation's work will be aligned with the Abu Dhabi Healthy Living Strategy, endorsed in November 2025, under which 25 strategic initiatives are underway to make healthy living the easy, everyday choice — moving from treatment alone to prevention and wellbeing.

In Dubai, the Foundation's approach will be aligned with the Dubai Health Sector Strategy 2026, including periodic screening and early detection for cancers that affect women. Pink Ribbon programmes are intended to complement that strategy — not to replace government services.

Save lives now. And find a cure by 2032.

"The United Arab Emirates has the vision, the health system and the investment capacity to lead the world in preventing female cancers and in funding the science that ends them." — Walter Scheffrahn, Founder of PinkRibbon International

A national affiliate of a global platform

Pink Ribbon Foundation UAE will operate under the strategic direction and governance of Pink Ribbon Inc., New York. It follows the launch of Pink Ribbon Foundation India in New Delhi on 26 August 2026, as PinkRibbon International builds country foundations to deliver its charitable mission locally — a movement now reaching 96 countries.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month worldwide. Holding the UAE launch during the Abu Dhabi Future Health Summit will place the new Foundation inside a gathering built to move health systems from reactive treatment to prediction, prevention and investment in life sciences — the same shift required to make the 2032 mission real.