Empowering women to promote cervical screening in Ireland

Cervical cancer is a preventable disease, it is preventable by ensuring everyone has access to vaccination against Human Papillomavirus (HPV), an infection that causes cervical cancer, cervical screening, and treatment at an early stage. As it is preventable, it can become a rare disease, meaning fewer people will be affected by it. The World Health Organization set a global call to action to make cervical cancer a rare disease and Ireland is aiming to achieve this goal by 2040. Although cervical screening is freely available to women and people with a cervix aged 25-65 in Ireland, not everyone goes and some communities have a higher risk of cervical cancer and are less likely to attend screening.