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The Health Research Council is putting up $1.2 million from its Rangahau Hauora Maōri investment stream so a study of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among Māori can piggy back on the country’s first-ever national lung cancer screening trial.
University of Otago professor and study lead Dr Sue Crengle says COPD is a smoking-related condition that is more common among Māori - occurring at a younger age than it does in other ethnic groups.
Māori also have much higher rates of hospitalisation for COPD-related illness.
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Women in Tāmaki Makaurau will get early access to a cervical cancer self-screening test, two years before the national roll out. Gynecological swab for HPV. Source: istock.com
The screening allows women to test themselves for the cancer-causing virus rather than having a pap smear with a doctor or nurse.
A research programme targeting Māori and Pacific women is looking at how the do-it-yourself test will work, what helps it work and what is needed to achieve equity.
Waitematā and Auckland District Health Boards health outcomes director Dr Karen Bartholomew said it was clear the current cervical cancer test was not working for Māori and Pasifika, and it was hoped self-testing would reach more women.