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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.
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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 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. We re working with Total Healthcare, Tāmaki Health, which is a large primary care organisation across Auckland and they have low screening coverage, particularly for Māori and Pacific women, Dr Bartholomew told
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Select clinics will offer the opportunity to self- test for HPV as part of a new research programme. (File photo) They will be offered the choice of doing an HPV self-test in the clinic or at home. They can then drop the test back to the clinic or mail the sample in. The preferred method and rise in self-testing will then be analysed, the results of which will help inform the Ministry of Health on how to operate the national HPV self-testing programme in two years’ time.
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Earleir this month Minister of Health Andrew Little and Associate Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verrall made the first Budget 2021 health announcement, assigning $53 million to the design and implementation of new testing for HPV.
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