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Media release from Auckland and Waitematā DHBs, and Massey University
Thursday 22 April 2021, 08:57 AM
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Professor John Potter, Massey University
Self-testing for cervical cancer could reduce cervical screening inequities for Māori, Pacific and Asian women, according to new research led by Massey University in partnership with Waitematā District Health Board and Auckland District Health Board.
Cervical cancer is caused by the HPV (human papillomavirus). HPV can be picked up by a test (which, crucially, can also be a self-test) using a cotton swab. It is less invasive than the current test used in the National Cervical Screening Programme.
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Waikato DHB director of Māori equity strategy and research Dr Nina Scott said there is a sense of urgency around the issue and the system needs a major shake-up in terms of health equity.
She said the DHB can develop services to meet the needs of all people including those who are living in poverty.
Scott said this could include ensuring they have transport available to enable them to access health services. There are a lot of changes that can be done over the short term to improve the results, for example one of our services has doubled its referrals for Māori into its service just by reporting back to GPs and other providers that they were not referring any Māori - almost overnight they massively increased their referral rate for Māori.
Chapel Hill, Carrboro Community Honors Breonna Taylor with Candlelight Vigil
On the one year anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s death, Chapel Hill and Carrboro community members gathered to celebrate her life, praise the efforts of Black women and advocate against racial injustice.
Organized by the youth council of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP, Saturday’s vigil at the Peace and Justice Plaza on East Franklin Street featured a candlelit moment of silence, musical performances and several speakers. Many shared messages of better respecting, recognizing and protecting Black women while calling for changes to systemic racism and discrimination across the country.
Taylor, a health care worker in Louisville, Kentucky, died on March 13, 2020, after three, unannounced plainclothes police officers shot into her apartment during an investigation into a drug dealing operation. While the Louisville Metro Police Department fired one of the officers, none have been charged in Taylor’s deat
A Christchurch urologist’s jokes about rectal examinations of Māori prison inmates during a Queenstown conference has sparked the resignation of the society s leading medic. In a complaint to the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand (USANZ), Rawiri Blundell, a member of national Māori cancer group Hei Āhuru Mōwai, said the comments at the November 14 conference were among the most offensive and ill-informed he had ever heard. The comments were made during a panel-led debate about whether Māori men’s reluctance to undergo a digital rectal examination prevented them from being screened for prostate cancer.