New Delhi [India], November 18 (ANI): Globally, every 2 minutes, a woman dies from cervical cancer - despite the disease being preventable and curable. In WHO South-East Asia, an estimated 160,000 new cases and 100,000 deaths due to cervical cancer were reported in 2022, representing approximately one-fourth of global disease burden, a statement by Catharina Boehme, Officer-in-Charge, WHO South-East Asia said.

On World Cervical Cancer Elimination Day, we remind the world of the urgency to "Act now, eliminate cervical cancer".

Globally, WHO has set ambitious interim targets for elimination to be achieved by 2030: Vaccination: 90% of girls fully vaccinated with the HPV vaccine by the age of 15;

70% of women screened using a high-performance test by the age of 35, and again by the age of 4

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