A special International HPV Awareness Day online event, with Kirby Institute's Dr Dorothy Machalek and Professor Andrew Vallely.
In 2018, 311,000 women died from cervical cancer, with most of these deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries. WHO's Global Strategy to Accelerate the Elimination of Cervical Cancer as a public health problem, outlines three key steps: human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination, cervical screening and early treatment. Successful global implementation of all three interventions is predicted to reduce more than 40% of new cases of the disease and 5 million related deaths by 2050.
For International HPV Awareness Day, we’ll be hearing from two Kirby Institute researchers working on innovative strategies to improve uptake of these highly effective preventions in settings with the highest disease burden: Dr Dorothy Machalek, who is investigating the impact of a single-dose HPV vaccine, and Professor Andrew Vallely, who is working on simple and accessible strategies for the early detection and treatment of cervical disease.
