Thread by @WHO

🆕global strategy to accelerate the elimination of #CervicalCancer launched today.

It rests on 3 🔑 pillars:
✅Prevention through HPV vaccination
✅Screening & treatment of precancerous lesions
✅Treatment & palliative care for invasive cervical cancer

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Vaccination of young adolescents against Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is safe and prevents #CervicalCancer.

HPV is the cause of cervical #cancer and is the most common sexually transmitted infection.

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#VaccinesWork

#CervicalCancer can be prevented.
#CervicalCancer can be prevented.
#CervicalCancer can be prevented.
#CervicalCancer can be prevented.

In addition to vaccination, regular screening & treatment of precancerous lesions protects from #cancer.

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For those who are identified with invasive #cancer, timely care and treatment saves lives. #PalliativeCare services can greatly reduce pain & suffering and are essential to #CervicalCancer control.

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To eliminate #CervicalCancer countries must reach & maintain incidence below 4 per 100 000 👩 & achieve these targets by 2030:
9⃣0⃣% of 👧 fully vaccinated by age 15
7⃣0⃣% of 👩 screened (by age 35 & 45)
9⃣0⃣% of 👩 with cervical disease receive treatment

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Achieving the 9⃣0⃣-7⃣0⃣-9⃣0⃣ targets by 2030 will reduce #CervicalCancer incidence rate and mortality, setting the 🌎🌍🌏 on a path to save 5 million lives by 2050.

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#CervicalCancer elimination is within reach.

The moment has arrived for an ambitious, concerted and inclusive strategy to accelerate the elimination of it as a global public health problem & save millions of lives around the 🌐

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Policy makers, healthcare providers, civil society, the research community, & the private sector all have important roles to play in eliminating #CervicalCancer.

Now is the time to act. Together we can do it!

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