As member states prepare for the fourth high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases and consider the resolution on cervical cancer, recall that the provision of palliative care and access to essential medicines, particularly opioids are needed to address the serious health related suffering associated with advanced cancer. Cervical cancer causes the highest levels of suffering of all the malignancies and is most difficult to treat. Women, especially in LMICs should not have to suffer unnecessarily. Morphine and other strong opioids are an essential component of treatment for pain. It is critical that planning for health services includes provision of palliative care beginning at an early stage in the disease trajectory and continuing throughout its course. Palliative care is not an optional extra; it is a core component of essential health services to reduce the serious health related suffering associated with cervical cancer. Until cervical cancer is eliminated palliative care is essential. We endorse the Call to Lead on NCDs.