Even in the time of H1N1, there are other health issues to think about.
There is a vaccine to prevent cancer of the cervix or cervical cancer. HPV vaccine. Unless HPV vaccine is included in the national immunisation programme, cervical cancer will continue to occur and screening and treatment will continue to cost families and the health care system a lot of money.
This programme shows how much effort is needed until the vaccine is used.
I think we learned from the response to HIV that prevention and treatment are both needed. Or did we?
Jamie
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City Cancer Challenge programme laid out
Ei Thinzar Kyaw
Eleven
07/21/2017
The Ministry of Health and Sport will cooperate with the Union for International Cancer Control to implement the C/Can 2025: City Cancer Challenge programme, reports say.
The two entities met for the first time on July 17 in Yangon and talked about precautions, early cancer diagnosis and treatments.
The programme’s officials met public health staff, heads of hospitals and representatives from the Golden Rose and U Hla Htun cancer foundations last month.
The programme selected Yangon besides Asuncion in Paraguay and Cali in Colombia for its cancer-awareness campaigns.
The Public Health Department said the instances of cardiac disease, diabetes, hypertension and cancers became more common over the last decade due to changing lifestyles and diet.
Statistics suggest 6.2 million people smoke, 10.3 million chew betel, 4.7 million drink alcohol and 2.4 million of them drink excessively.
The country conducted a survey about non-infectious diseases in 2014 and found that over 70,000 people died annually from cancer and tuberculosis due to chewing tobacco leaves and smoking.
In 2016 the Central Women’s Hospital and the East Yangon General Hospital studied 106 women aged between 20 and 79 with cervical cancer and found 97 of them did not receive cervical check-ups before they were diagnosed with cancer.
Women aged over 50 accounted for 34.9 per cent of cervical cancer cases, according to joint research by the two hospitals last year.
Cervical cancer is the most common cancer in Myanmar's women, second only to breast cancer.
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