The Ministry of Health, National Screening Unit (NSU) have upcoming changes to the National Cervical Screening Programme (NCSP). The NCSP has increased the eligible screening start age from 20 to 25 years of age.
This decision is a safe clinical based rational – not money driven
24 May 2019 - Source: New Zealand Herald
Researchers are urging New Zealanders to get immunised against a virus known as human papillomavirus (HPV) in a bid to significantly reduce the country's alarming throat cancer rates.30 September 2018 - Source: New Zealand Herald
Cervical cancer campaigner, 26, insisted on documentary makers filming shocking images of her lying in a coffin after her death - as a warning to other young women to get the HPV vaccine
