Taipei Times
Date: Jun 23, 2020
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter

Sixty-seven percent of people aged 19 to 45 in a survey said that they did not use a condom during sex, the Formosa Cancer Foundation said yesterday as it released a music video to raise awareness about genital human papillomavirus (HPV).

Citing a 2014 study conducted in the US, foundation vice president Tsai Li-chuan (蔡麗娟) said that the lifetime probability of acquiring HPV was more than 80 percent for women and men.

Every day in Taiwan, an average of four women are diagnosed with cervical cancer, which is mostly associated with HPV infection, she said, adding that 674 people died of cervical cancer last year.

HPV causes more than 90 percent of cervical cancers and pre-cancerous cervical lesions, Tsai said.    [FULL  STORY]