Mexico launches HPV screening program
The government of Mexico's Public Health Agency (SSA) has announced the first phase of a human papillomavirus testing program for low-income women aged 35-65. The test is in addition to the traditional Pap smear. From early 2009, the aim is to offer screening to 800,000 people, including 200,000 in the poorest districts of the country, using the Netherlands-based Qiagen's digene HPV test.
According to World Health Organization data, 11% of women in Mexico carry the HPV virus, with 12,000 cases of cervical cancer, half of them fatal, resulting from this per year.
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