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Launching of the Self-Sampling HPV Diagnostic System
Thursday 21 March 2019
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Dr Abigail Jerip, President of Pink and Teal EmpowHer (an NGO dedicated to increase cancer awareness and screen women for breast and cervical cancer) together with Dr Mardiana Kipli, Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Dr Tan Cheng Siang Head of the Centre for Tropical and Emerging Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UNIMAS has paid a courtesy visit to YB Dato Sri Hajjah Fatimah Abdullah, Ministry of Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development for the launching of the Pink and Teal self-sampling HPV diagnostic system.

Nearly all cervical cancer is caused by persistent infection by Human papillomavirus. Cervical cancer is a preventable disease by means of effective vaccination and early detection. HPV infection takes about 5-10 years to cause cervical abnormality or cancer. Screening for the presence of HPV genomic materials can, therefore, detect the risk of developing cervical cancer even before any abnormality can be detected by any other traditional tests such as Pap smear.

The self-sampling HPV diagnostic system allows women to collect their own vaginal samples at their own time and privacy while the test itself can produce result within 3 hours, one of the fastest HPV diagnostic system in the world. The system is portable and can be used to screen the women in the rural area, ideal for the low resource settings in Sarawak.

The campaign launched by Pink and Teal EmpowHer is called Sigek Kitak Sigek Kamek (in Bahasa Sarawak) or in plain English, One for You and One for Me. For every purchase of a self-sampling kit, you are also sponsoring one HPV test to the rural community.

 

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