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Live with @DrTedros on #CervicalCancer Elimination Day of Action 2021. #GlowTeal twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
"Last month, I had the honour of meeting the @LacksFamily. For those who don’t know her story, Henrietta Lacks was a black woman who attended a hospital in Baltimore in 1951 complaining of vaginal bleeding – a common symptom of #cervicalcancer"-@DrTedros
@LacksFamily @DrTedros "Without her knowledge or consent, doctors took a biopsy of the tumour and sent it off for analysis"-@DrTedros #CervicalCancer
Today WHO joins advocates around the 🌐 to commemorate a landmark Day of Action for #CervicalCancer Elimination & welcome groundbreaking new initiatives to end this devastating disease, which claims the lives of over 300,000 women each year.
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As with #COVID19, access to lifesaving tools is constrained, with women & adolescent girls in the poorest countries deprived of clinical screening facilities, human papillomavirus vaccines & treatments which those in affluent places take for granted.
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The disparity between deaths from #CervicalCancer in high-income compared with low-income countries tells a stark story, similar to that we have seen during #COVID19, with 9⃣ in 🔟 deaths from cervical cancer happening in low & middle-income countries.
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