Sign the Healthy Caribbean Coalition E-petition to Stop Cervical Cancer
Did you know?
One of the simplest ways of controlling cervical cancer is the Pap test, yet coverage rates across the Caribbean are unacceptable with some countries reporting less than 20% of screening. Half of the Caribbean women with cervical cancer have never had a pap smear.
The Cayman Islands Cancer Society supports the Healthy Caribbean Coalition with this effort. You can do your part as well by signing the petition!
SIGN & SHARE the cervical cancer e-petition.
Why Cervical Cancer ?
Every year, approximately 31,700 women in Latin America and the Caribbean die from cervical cancer
The Caribbean is among the top four highest sub-regions in the world with respect to incidence of cervical cancer and has the highest burden of HPV (human papilloma virus) in the Americas
Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of cancer related deaths among Caribbean women
More than 95% of cases of cervical cancer can be prevented
How do we Prevent Deaths Unnecessary Deaths?
INCREASED screening and effective prevention and control measures, that include Pap tests, HPV testing, vaccination against HPV, and use of VIA (visual inspection with acetic acid).
One of the simplest ways of controlling cervical cancer is the Pap test, yet in some countries only one in five women receive Pap tests.
Among those women diagnosed with cervical cancer, 50% of these women have never had a Pap test.
What can YOU do?
Sign this e-petition NOW (see attached) at: https://www.facebook.com/GettheMessage/app_556923987680282
Access to health care is a basic human right – DEMAND CHANGE today
Protect our mothers, wives, daughters and sisters – No woman should die from Cervical Cancer.
The Cayman Islands Cancer Society and Health Services Authority are joining forces in an effort to change that fact.
More information about cervical cancer is available on the Cancer Society website on www.cics.ky and its Facebook page.
The Cancer Society and the Health Services Authority will be providing free immunisations against HPV in government high schools during the next school year as well.
