カテゴリー: Cervical cancer
Despite vaccination hesitancy, the end may be in sight for cervical cancer, which kills 64% of women with the diseaseThe questions come fast and furious: “Why only girls?”, “will it affect her periods?”, “can it cause infertility?”, “is it halal?” Insi…
It has taken 18 years for India to produce its own affordable version to tackle the country’s second-biggest cause of cancer deaths among womenIt is a Wednesday morning and Sneha Neurgaonkar sits on a gurney in a private hospital in Pune, India. The 14…
Reality TV star reveals social media stunt and says she is proud of what ‘death news has been able to achieve’An Indian model who faked her own death in a publicity stunt to raise awareness about cervical cancer has defended her actions, saying in a so…
A group of Bangladesh’s health workers are working to reach women in some of the country’s most isolated places, to fight back against stigma of cervical cancer The health workers arrive on a wooden cart, hijabs blowing in the wind, as they are pulled …
Advocates call for for self-testing as another path to regular screening for the HPV virus that causes nearly all cervical cancerWomen’s health advocates in New Zealand are calling for the government to improve the country’s cervical cancer screening p…