Our Business HPV

12/12/2025

Nice stats for the ladies.

A new report shows Australia is on track to become the first country to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035.

The 2025 report, released this month, from the Centre for Research Excellence in Cervical Cancer Control confirms rates of cervical cancer among Australian women continue to fall.

In 2021, the national cervical cancer rate decreased to 6.3 per 100,000, compared to 6.6 per 100,000 in 2020.

However, for Indigenous women, the rate is higher at 11.7 per 100,000 in 2017-2021.

Furthermore, the proportion of people who are up-to-date with screening has now declined for the second consecutive year (2023 and 2024).

There are now more than 1 in 4 eligible women overdue for cervical screening.

“Australia’s early adoption of HPV vaccines for girls and young women and timely switch to cervical screening rather than Pap smears have us well on track to achieve elimination and save more lives,” says Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care Rebecca White in a media statement.

“But we must continue to improve equitable access to maintain rates of HPV vaccination and make sure everyone has access to cervical screening.”

11/09/2025

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a common sexually transmitted infection that can lead to HPV-related cancers such as cervical cancer and other cancers such as 🐱, 🌻, 🍆, 🍑, cancer.

HPV rarely produces symptoms and cannot be cured or treated; therefore, vaccination is essential to protect against HPV and HPV-related diseases. However, young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People do not receive all their HPV vaccine doses, resulting in missed opportunities to be protected from HPV-related cancers. We asked some of the country's best Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Influencers help us bring awareness to HPV through Our Business. Want to know more? Head to our link in bio.

05/09/2025

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a common sexually transmitted infection that can lead to HPV-related cancers such as cervical cancer and other cancers such as 🐱, 🌻, 🍆, 🍑, cancer. We asked some of the country's best Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Influencers help us bring awareness to HPV through Our Business.

03/09/2025

For Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, good health is more than the absence of disease or illness; it is a holistic concept that includes physical, social, emotional, cultural and spiritual wellbeing, for both the individual and the community - that is why we started Our Business.

27/08/2025

Our Business is a research initiative led by the Maladjiny Research Centre a centre for improving health services for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Children and Families.
This research aims to increase rates of HPV vaccination amongst young people to prevent the spread of Human Papillomavirus for the future of communities

09/07/2025

For Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, good health is more than the absence of disease or illness; it is a holistic concept that includes physical, social, emotional, cultural and spiritual wellbeing, for both the individual and the community - that is why we started Our Business.

03/07/2025

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a common sexually transmitted infection that can lead to HPV-related cancers such as cervical cancer and other cancers such as 🐱, 🌻, 🍆, 🍑, cancer.

HPV rarely produces symptoms and cannot be cured or treated; therefore, vaccination is essential to protect against HPV and HPV-related diseases. However, young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People do not receive all their HPV vaccine doses, resulting in missed opportunities to be protected from HPV-related cancers. We asked some of the country's best Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Influencers help us bring awareness to HPV through Our Business. Want to know more? Head to our link in bio.

26/06/2025

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a common sexually transmitted infection that can lead to HPV-related cancers such as cervical cancer and other cancers such as 🐱, 🌻, 🍆, 🍑, cancer. We asked some of the country's best Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Influencers help us bring awareness to HPV through Our Business.

18/06/2025

HPV vaccine can prevent HPV infection, the development of precancerous lesions and cancers caused by vaccine-type HPV infection. Since the introduction of the HPV vaccination program in Australia in 2007, reductions in lesions caused by HPV have already been recorded. Through a combination of high rates of HPV vaccination and cervical screening, Australia is on track to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035. In addition to reducing the risk of cervical cancer, HPV vaccination protects against HPV infections and associated disease in other sites.