The HPV vaccine is effective, but can cervical cancer be eliminated?

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The HPV vaccine is effective, but can cervical cancer be eliminated?

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Indian women
Nearly 90 per cent of cervical cancer deaths occur in low and middle-income countries

Last year, important modelling was done to assess what it would take to eradicate cervical cancer across wealthier and poorer nations alike. IMAC director Nikki Turner reports on the international call for action by stakeholders to eliminate cervical cancer

In May 2018, the WHO director-general made a global call for action to eliminate cervical cancer “as a public health problem” by reducing the incidenc