Healthy Savannah and Chatham County Health Department Reschedule Cervical Cancer Prevention Health Fair for Feb. 20 (SAVANNAH, GA) Healthy Savannah and the Chatham County Health Department are partnering to offer a cervical cancer awareness and screening event on Thursday, Feb. […]
(SAVANNAH, Ga.) Cervical cancer is entirely preventable, yet Georgia ranks 30th in the nation for its human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine coverage rate of only 61.5%. Healthy Savannah has spent the past year working to change that statistic in
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The detrimental consequences of cervical cancer can be preventable due to the accessibility and efficacy of the HPV vaccine.
(SAVANNAH, Ga.) Cervical cancer rates in Georgia average about 8 per 100,000 women, slightly higher than the national average. But cervical cancer incidence rates in some Georgia counties are even higher, and among Black women, mortality rates are almost 1.5x
