FOI 5204 – Funding For ACON Health Limited

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The Department of Health and Aged Care funded a National Cervical Screening Awareness Campaign with a $10.2 million budget from 2022/23 to 2025, launching in the first half of 2024. The campaign targeted women and people with a cervix aged 25-74 to increase participation in the five-yearly National Cervical Screening Program, which detects human papillomavirus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer. In 2022, only 68% of eligible people participated. The campaign involved partnerships with ACON Health Limited (advertising), the Australian Centre for Prevention of Cervical Cancer, National Aboriginal Community Control Health Agency, and the Australian Multicultural Health Collaborative. The release highlights significant health disparities: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women had cervical cancer incidence rates twice that of non-Indigenous Australians (19 versus 10 per 100,000) and