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On November 17, 2023, we celebrated the third anniversary of the World Health Organisation's global movement to end cervical cancer, which was once again marked in Slovenia and around the world by illuminating landmarks in teal, the colour… Read more

The 2nd Open Days of Slovenian Cancer Screening Programmes 2023 are co-organized by the Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, National Institute of Public Health, Ministry of Health, EU-TOPIA-EAST project, and WHO Regional Office for Europe. The… Read more

Researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and partner institutions organized a two-day workshop on 1–2 June 2023 for cancer screening experts as part of the “Strengthening cancer screening data collection to… Read more

As of 1 November 2022, a new European partnership to increase HPV vaccination in Europe was launched under the umbrella of the Partnership to contrast HPV – project PERCH, involving 18 European countries, including Slovenia. Italy is the… Read more

On Thursday, 17 November 2022, we celebrated the second anniversary of the launch of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Strategy to End the World's First Cancer - Cervical Cancer. Slovenia's commitment to end cervical cancer was… Read more

At the end of the 26th Slovenian campaign "My Doctor 2022", in which participants chose the most caring and emphatic doctors to show them their gratitude for their self-sacrificing work, President Borut Pahor, the honorary patron of the… Read more

On June 21, 2022, we published a news regarding the inviting of women from Ukraine with temporary protection in Slovenia, with a notice that women from Ukraine with temporary protection in Slovenia are not entitled to preventive screening… Read more