Jos — The Plateau State chapter of the National Association of Women Journalists, (NAWOJ) has vowed to fight cervical as it has threatened the lives of many women in the country.
NAWOJ gave the commitment at a sensitisation workshop it organised in Jos yesterday. Plateau State Deputy Governor, Mrs. Pauline Tallen who agreed with NAWOJ, described cervical cancer as a life-threatening disease, saying there was the need to sensitise women on the danger to reduce the threat it poses to them. She said that was because the increase in the rate of infection was due to ignorance which she said must be eradicated.
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