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这位协和专家,要让宫颈癌从中国消失

WeChat: 医学界 Medical/Healthcare AI 2026-08-17
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TL;DR - A profile of public-health expert Qiao Youlin traces nearly three decades of work expanding cervical-cancer prevention in China through HPV testing, vaccination, and low-cost screening. His efforts helped inform national programs, including HPV vaccine coverage for 13-year-old girls, while highlighting screening access as the remaining major gap.

  • Large-scale Chinese research found a 14.2% high-risk HPV infection rate and reported 95.2% detection of cervical cancer and precancerous lesions using HPV testing.
  • Qiao’s team developed careHPV, a portable rapid-screening system for low-resource regions that received WHO prequalification and has been deployed internationally.
  • Local free-vaccination pilots beginning in Ordos in 2020 helped catalyze broader adoption and the HPV vaccine’s inclusion in China’s national immunization program.
  • China’s hardest remaining WHO “90-70-90” challenge is screening 70% of eligible women, motivating efforts to make testing cheaper, more accessible, and capable of returning results within 30 minutes.

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