They have seen the horrors of cervical cancer, with women in the prime of their lives presenting with late-stage disease and suffering slow and painful deaths. Without changes in prevention and control, deaths from cervical cancer worldwide are projected to rise almost two-fold by 2030, to more than 430,000 per year.
卢旺达等国民众对这种情况了如指掌，这也是他们为什么如此急于堵住HPV接种漏洞的原因。他们亲眼目睹了宫颈癌的可怕后果，目睹了年富力强的女性身患晚期癌症，在漫长而痛苦的折磨中走向死亡。如果预防和控制状况不发生变化，到2030年全球宫颈癌死亡人数预计将增长近2倍，超过430,000人/年的规模。