Cervical smear participation and prevalence of sexually transmitted infections in women attending a community‐controlled Indigenous health service in North Queensland

Objective: To increase Pap smear participation and to assess the prevalence of sexually transmitted infection (STI) in urban Indigenous women in Townsville.

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