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10 2. Male participation There is a low level of male participation in promoting positive attitude and behaviour and SRH services for men are very limited, usually concentrated to STIs and HIV/AIDS.
3. Community participation Communities are not well informed on matters concerning their health and thus cannot take ownership of the decision making process.
4. Cancer of cervix There are no updated national statistics relating to cancers of the reproductive system. In 1982 at the National Health Symposium Dr Mola reported that cervical cancer was reported to be 15 percent of all female cancer and 62 percent of all the gynaecological cancers. Seventeen years later in the very same Symposium the cervical cancer counted for 48 percent of all cancers in female. Evidence exists not only on the increasing incidence of the cancer of the cervix but of its occurrence in a much younger age group. With increasing life expectancy the reproductive cancers in the elderly male and female will become increasingly evident in PNG.
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