WHO Urges Southeast Asia Region To Strengthen Efforts To Eliminate Cervical Cancer

WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia: Accelerate efforts to eliminate cervical cancer: WHO
“World Health Organization urged countries in its South-East Asia Region to accelerate efforts to eliminate cervical cancer by 2030. ‘Countries need to expand vaccination, screening, detection, and treatment services for everyone, everywhere to address the growing problem of cervical cancer,’ said Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh, regional director of WHO South-East Asia, at the Seventy Second Session of WHO Regional Committee here in Delhi…” (9/6).

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