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Background

Cervical Cancer is the second most common cancer among women worldwide, and is caused by human papillomavirus infections. Yet there are a number of effective preventive strategies available today to protect women and prevent disease progression, but they remain unfamiliar to most women. At present the greatest challenge to accelerate implementation of cervical cancer prevention programs, to ensure high coverage and to achieve high participation of women is to inform and educate health professionals, women and the public at large, about the disease and its causes, as well as the benefits of vaccination, screening and preventive health care.

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