An Auckland HPV self-testing research programme will target Maori and Pasifika women 24 May 2021
Some clinics will offer kits to those overdue for a smear - and see if they re keen on self-testing.
It ll help inform the Ministry of Health before national rollout of the kits from 2023.
Waitemata and Auckland DHB Director of Health Outcomes, Dr Karen Bartholomew, says that group of women aren t well served in terms of cervical cancer.
She says that s in terms of access to screening and cancer outcomes with Maori women s mortality rates two to three times higher.
HPV self-testing kits will be offered to some Auckland women from a new research programme - 24-May-2021
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HPV self-testing kits will be offered to some Auckland women from a new research programme - 24-May-2021
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