{"id":30674,"date":"2021-04-07T14:30:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T05:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/07\/new-zealand-ministers-cervical-cancer-diagnosis-prompts-calls-for-better-screening"},"modified":"2021-04-07T14:30:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T05:30:30","slug":"new-zealand-ministers-cervical-cancer-diagnosis-prompts-calls-for-better-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30674","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand minister\u2019s cervical cancer diagnosis prompts calls for better screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates call for for self-testing as another path to regular screening for the HPV virus that causes nearly all cervical cancer<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s health advocates in New Zealand are calling for the government to improve the country\u2019s cervical cancer screening programme <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/06\/new-zealand-minister-kiri-allan-to-take-medical-leave-after-cervical-cancer-diagnosis\">following minister Kiritapu Allan\u2019s shock diagnosis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Allan, the 37-year-old minister for conservation and civil defence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/06\/new-zealand-minister-kiri-allan-to-take-medical-leave-after-cervical-cancer-diagnosis\">shared<\/a> that she had stage-three cancer in a Facebook post on Tuesday, in which she wrote that she had felt uncomfortable about the invasive screening test.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/07\/new-zealand-ministers-cervical-cancer-diagnosis-prompts-calls-for-better-screening\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates call for for self-testing as another path to regular screening for the HPV virus that causes nearly all cervical cancerWomen\u2019s health advocates in New Zealand are calling for the government to improve the country\u2019s cervical cancer screening p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2063,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cervical-cancer","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30675,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30674\/revisions\/30675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}