Reasons for optimism about eliminating cervical cancer in China

Since the global call to action for the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem in 2018, WHO has been drafting a strategy to achieve elimination in all countries through vaccination, screening, and treatment. Many high-income countries are on track to meet the proposed threshold for elimination—an age-standardised annual incidence of fewer than four cases of cervical cancers per 100 000 women—through human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and cervical cancer screening programmes.