00:00About 33 new infections occur daily and 22 women die daily from cervical cancer.
00:06Cervical cancer, although preventable, has become the second most common cancers among Nigerian women today.
00:13The Global Health Strategy by the WHO requires country to vaccinate 90% of their girls,
00:21screen 70% of its women, and place 90% of those with cervical cancer on treatment.
00:27Available data from the National Primary Health Care Development Agency indicates that the country vaccinated 13 million girls by the
00:36end of 2024.
00:37About 40 million Nigerian women fall within the age bracket of 25 and 64.
00:45And for Nigeria to meet the 2030 targets, it needs to screen about 28 million of this age bracket.
00:52Medical experts all over the country are encouraging women to go for cervical cancer screening.
00:58They are equally advocating that government should create designated screening centers to encourage these women to go for screening.
01:06Thank you so much for coming.
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