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Advances in cervical cancer prevention: Efficacy, effectiveness, elimination?
Human papillomaviruses (HPV) cause several serious and life-threatening diseases, with cervical cancer having received the most attention. In recent years, effective vaccines protecting against the most high-risk HPV types have become available and are now provided to populations in many high-income countries. However, in low- and middle-income countries HPV vaccines are much less widely available at present, and in these settings population screening for cervical cancer and its precursors may also be absent.
In this month’s Editorial, Karin Sundström and Miriam Elfström discuss plans to roll-out HPV vaccines for prevention of cervical cancer and other diseases more generally, and consider the longer-term prospects for cervical cancer elimination.
Image Credit: Hey Paul Studios, Flickr
Citation: (2020) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 17(1) October 2020. PLoS Med 17(1): ev17.i01. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v17.i01
Published: October 5, 2020
Copyright: © 2020 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Human papillomaviruses (HPV) cause several serious and life-threatening diseases, with cervical cancer having received the most attention. In recent years, effective vaccines protecting against the most high-risk HPV types have become available and are now provided to populations in many high-income countries. However, in low- and middle-income countries HPV vaccines are much less widely available at present, and in these settings population screening for cervical cancer and its precursors may also be absent.
In this month’s Editorial, Karin Sundström and Miriam Elfström discuss plans to roll-out HPV vaccines for prevention of cervical cancer and other diseases more generally, and consider the longer-term prospects for cervical cancer elimination.
Image Credit: Hey Paul Studios, Flickr