Health Agencies Call for Stepped-up Action to Eliminate Cervical Cancer

FILE - Women wait outside the Philippe Maguilen Senghor health center for free breast and cervical cancer screenings in Dakar, Senegal, on April 22, 2017.

Health agencies are urging governments and civil society to step up action to eliminate cervical cancer, a vaccine-preventable disease that kills a woman every two minutes, mostly in low- and middle-income countries.