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New Zealand’s current screening programme calls for a smear test every three years for women aged 25 to 69 years. And it has been successful, reducing incidences of cancer by 50 per cent and mortality rates by 60 per cent since the programme was introduced in 1990. However, only three-quarters of eligible women are being screened with Māori, Pasifika and Asian demographics less likely than European New Zealanders to have regular screenings. “It is a system failure that women don’t want to get a cervical cancer screening,” said Professor Bev Lawton, director of the Centre for Women’s Health Research at Victoria University in Wellington who is advocating for a self-test procedure to be common practice in New Zealand. “We just have to have a test that suits them.”

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