| By Lizzy Adie, 8th October 2015.
According to the centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HPV is the most common Sexual Disease Infection that affect both men and women. It is common that most sexually active people will get some variety of it at some point, even if they have few sexual partners.
To this effect, Stakeholders in the health sector has called on women to go for cervical cancer screening test so as to reduce the incidence and mortality of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in the body.
This call was made at the sensitization meeting for implementing partners organized by the Nigeria National Cervical Cancer Screening scale up project (NNCCsup) in Abuja yesterday, by the Vice chairman, Technical working group of NNCCsup, prof. Francis Abayomi Durosinmi Etti, who said cervical cancer is recognized after breast cancer as the second most cancer in women in Nigeria.
Durosinmi Etti, who pointed out that the disease could be cured at an early age if the patients go for early medical checkup, adding that many NGOs both National and International are on the field complementing government efforts to combating the disease.
He added that “The aim of the NNCCsup is to increase access of Nigeria women to cervical cancer screening services with the overarching goal of reducing the morbidity and mortality”.
Credit to the GUARDIAN.
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