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Indonesian hospital staff preparing for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination.
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(Geneva = Yonhap News) Correspondent Ahn Hee = A United Nations agency has diagnosed that worldwide, one patient dies from cervical cancer every two minutes and that low access to vaccines in low- and middle-income countries is limiting the their ability to overcome the crisis. illness.
“Cervical cancer is one of the few cancers that can be prevented with vaccines, but somewhere in the world it is one of the few cancers that can be prevented,” said Ervi Verhussel, public relations manager at the International Organization for the United Nations for public health. The Pharmaceutical Sciences Purchasing (UNITAD), in a briefing at the UN headquarters in Geneva on the 13th (local time): “Every minute, a woman dies from this disease,” he said.
It is reported that more than 720 deaths due to cervical cancer occur every day worldwide.
Bear Hussel pointed out that the reason for the difficulty in responding to the disease is that the vaccination rate for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which prevents cervical cancer, has a large gap depending on each country’s income.
He said: “HPV testing, treatment and vaccination are ways to prevent cervical cancer, but due to limitations in vaccine accessibility in each country and depleted medical capacity in response to COVID-19, only 1 in 5 girls and adolescents worldwide are vaccinated.” “It has been received,” he explained.
Dr. Prevo Varango, director of non-communicable diseases at the World Health Organization (WHO), also present at the briefing, said: “Access to treatment in low- and middle-income countries is an important task to defeat cervical cancer .”
He said: “If more children and adolescents are vaccinated and access to screening and treatment services improves, we will be on track to eradicate cervical cancer by 2030.”
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