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Kōrero: Pacific Island health

Encouraging cervical testing

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Encouraging cervical testing

In 2010 the National Screening Unit of the Ministry of Health produced a series of television commercials, posters and print advertisements encouraging Pacific women to have regular cervical smear tests. The aim was to detect signs of cervical cancer before it became untreatable.

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Colin Tukuitonga, Pacific Island health – Diseases and disabilities, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/27757/encouraging-cervical-testing (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Colin Tukuitonga, i tāngia i te 17 February 2011, updated 9 January 2019.