CERVICAL CANCER is a grave threat to women’s health and lives, and globally, one woman dies of cervical cancer every two minutes. This suffering is unacceptable, particularly as cervical cancer is largely preventable.

The highest mortality rate for the disease is also recorded in developing countries, and in the Philippines, where cervical cancer ranks second as the leading prevalent type of cancer among women, the disease is almost exclusively attributable to the human papillomavirus (HPV) infection.