{"id":27674,"date":"2020-11-15T13:15:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T13:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=27674"},"modified":"2020-11-15T13:15:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T13:15:06","slug":"towards-cervical-cancer-elimination-in-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=27674","title":{"rendered":"Towards Cervical Cancer elimination in the Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/images\/default-source\/health-topics\/cervical-cancer\/paho-event.jpg?sfvrsn=ccfd1399_1\" style=\"display:block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;\" alt=\"PAHO event announcement picture\" class=\"sf-immutable-selected\" sf-size=\"173595\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of the launch of the Global Strategy for the Elimination of Cervical Cancer,\u00a0 adopted by the World Health Assembly in November 2020, PAHO\/WHO is organizing a regional event\u00a0to present this global strategy, and review progress with the Regional Action Plan on the Prevention and Control of Cervical Cancer.<\/p>\n<p>This event will also be an opportunity to exchange information on progress and strengthen commitments to implement activities in the Region to reach the global goals of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>90% coverage of HPV vaccination in girls before the age of 15 years;<\/li>\n<li>70% coverage with HPV testing in women aged 35-45 years; and<\/li>\n<li>90% treatment coverage, including palliative care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paho.org\/en\/events\/towards-cervical-cancer-elimination-americas\" target=\"_blank\" data-sf-ec-immutable=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full announcement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n    <\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/15-11-2020-towards-cervical-cancer-elimination-in-the-americas\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of the launch of the Global Strategy for the Elimination of Cervical Cancer,\u00a0 adopted by the World Health Assembly in November 2020, PAHO\/WHO is organizing a regional event\u00a0to present this global strategy, and review progress with the Regional Action Plan on the Prevention and Control of Cervical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-life-style"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/paho-event.jpgsfvrsnccfd1399_1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}