and South Africa) were found to have the highest cervical cancer incidences (ASIR >40 per 100,000) compared to western Asia, particularly Australia-New Zealand with ASIR <10 per 100,000. Accordingly, this provides the reason on the fact that nearly 84% of all cervical cancers and 88% of all deaths caused by cervical cancer occurred in lower-resource countries globally. In contrast, countries such as north America, northern and western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, northern Africa and western Asia have the lowest incidence rates. The low incidence among the northern Africa and western Asia countries could be attributed to societal practices around sexual activities leading to low prevalence of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) (Arbyn, 2020). The incidence rate of sexually related infections (STI), such as Human
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