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Pacific cervical-screening campaign

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Pacific cervical-screening campaign

Māori and Pacific women have lower rates of cervical- and breast-cancer screening than women of other ethnicities. This poster produced by the National Cervical Screening Programme encouraged Pacific women to be checked for cervical cancer.

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Kerryn Pollock, Health and society – Health services, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/30753/pacific-cervical-screening-campaign (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 18 April 2011.