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Welcome to the Family Planning NSW Disability website
Your take home guide to: The Cervical Screening Test
When life gets busy, it's not always easy to find time to take care of ourselves.
By getting regular Cervical Screening Tests, cervical cancer becomes one of Australia's most preventable cancers.
What is the Cervical Screening Test?
The Cervical Screening Test is a simple test that looks for human papillomavirus (HPV), a virus which can cause abnormal changes in the cells of the cervix. If left untreated, these cell changes can eventually cause cervical cancer.
The Low Down
The Low Down is a resource about sexual health and relationships for young people under 25 years old. The resource was developed in plain English for young people from a non-English speaking background.
Know Your Health: Cervical Screening Test
What is cervical cancer?
Our bodies are made up of millions of cells.
New cells grow every day.
Sometimes when cells grow differently they can turn into cancer.
Cervical cancer is cancer in the cervix.
The cervix is inside the body at the top of the vagina.
What causes cervical cancer?
Cervical cancer is caused by the human papillomavirus. Human papillomavirus is sometimes called HPV.
There are many types of HPV. Women and men can get HPV. HPV is very common. Anyone who has ever had sexual contact could have HPV.
Other Locations
Family Planning Australia conducts outreach clinics through partnerships with a range of NSW organisations across the state. The current outreach clinic locations are Blacktown, Cobar, Campbelltown and Nyngan.
Know Your Health: Menopause
Know Your Health: Pregnancy options
This booklet is for people who are pregnant and are not sure what to do.
Know Your Health: Contraceptive options
This factsheet is for men and women who want to know about contraception. Contraception is what a man and woman use if they want to have sex together but do not want to have a baby.
How a woman gets pregnant
A woman's body gets ready for a baby by thickening the lining of the uterus. Each month a woman releases an egg from one of her ovaries. If a woman's egg does not meet with a man's sperm a baby will not grow. The uterus lining and the egg will come out as her period.
Fact sheets in community languages
Family Planning NSW publishes fact sheets in a wide range of community languages. These provide essential information on reproductive and sexual health, contraception, menstruation and STIs.
Community Education
The health promotion team at Family Planning Australia are available to visit your school or service (or have you over to one of our clinics), to talk about a range of related topics with groups.
Our staff are skilled in delivering information about these sensitive topics in a way that promotes safety and comfort for the participants. Our team are experts in delivering sessions to people from culturally and linguistically diverse and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, people with disability, and young people (under 30 years).