Thank you, Chair. Thank you so much to the witnesses for being here.
I just want to highlight something that I think Dr. Salvador said. It's that “women's cancers have been orphaned from the traditional” models.
I mean, it should be no surprise to most of us sitting around this table why that would be. I'm just really proud to be here with fellow women, and our allies as well, to really shine a light on women's health. It's been neglected for far too long.
I'm going to focus a little bit on the cervical cancer piece, because it's quite alarming to me that the rates are increasing.
The report lists various factors associated with this increase. You mentioned screening uptake and the vaccination piece. There's also a higher prevalence of HPV due to changing sexual practices. Can you maybe expand on that a little bit? What underpins these increases?