BBCNEWS Newsday June 4, 2024 01:20:00
Dr claire nightingale from the melbourne school of population and global health and asked her why australia's cervical cancer strategy was so successful. australia has had a very strong focus on prevention for a very long time. as you mentioned, screening and vaccination are very important here. so australia has had a screening programme for the last 30 years, either in the form of a pap test, which many people will know, or more recently hpv testing. about 60 to 70% of women and people with a cervix have participated regularly in this programme, and also australia introduced a school—based ...