GENEVA (EFE).— The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday commemorated, for the first time, World Cervical Cancer Day, an initiative to raise awareness about the fight against the fourth most common cancer among women and which causes some 350,000 deaths annually.
With this event, the United Nations agency wants to highlight the importance of vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) as one of the main tools to prevent this disease, together with the expansion of screening and treatment services.
“More and more countries are increasing these measures, which brings us closer to a future free of cervical cancer,” highlighted the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, to commemorate the day, decided at the agency’s recent annual meeting.
On this day in 2018, the director general of the WHO himself launched the strategy to fight this disease, with the triple objective of reaching 90% of girls vaccinated against HPV, 70% of screening in women and 90% of treatments against the tumor.
In this sense, the GAVI Vaccine Alliance stated yesterday that it has achieved its goal of reaching an additional vaccination of 86 million girls against the human papillomavirus (HPV) by 2025.
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The whole of Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which is inhabited by the Belgians, another by the Aquitani, and the third by those who, in their language of the Celts, are called our Gauls.
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The whole of Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which is inhabited by the Belgians, another by the Aquitani, and the third by those who, in their language of the Celts, are called our Gauls.
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The whole of Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which is inhabited by the Belgians, another by the Aquitani, and the third by those who, in their language of the Celts, are called our Gauls.