00:00Despite vaccines and modern screening tools, only 10% of Filipino women undergo HPV testing far from the WHO's 70% target.
00:09Health experts stress that cervical cancer, the second most common cancer among Filipinas, is preventable through vaccination and early detection.
00:17Without urgent action, the Department of Health warns that over 160,000 women could die from the disease by 2017.
00:24New strategies, such as the centralized laboratory model for HPV DNA screening, are being rolled out to speed up testing and treatment.
00:33This includes self-collection methods and thermal ablation to improve patient access.
00:37Doctors emphasize the need for political will to make HPV DNA testing the primary screening tool nationwide.
00:43We really have to have this political will to say that, yes, we're going to use HPV DNA tests as the primary or preferred screening procedure for cervical cancer screening,
01:01and then the use of thermal ablation.
