• About Pap tests or Pap smears
• Who should have Pap tests or Pap smears?
• Vaccinated women
• Pregnant women
• Older women
• After hysterectomy
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
• Culturally and linguistically diverse women
• Women with disabilities
• Lesbians
• Victim/survivors of sexual assault
• The human papillomavirus (HPV)
• The cervical cancer vaccine
• Abnormal Pap test (or Pap smear) results and treatment
• Cervical cancer

Culturally and linguistically diverse women

Women from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds are thought to be less likely to have regular Pap tests, due to cultural barriers or lack of knowledge about the screening program.

It is very important that all culturally and linguistically diverse women who have ever been sexually active have Pap tests every two years between the ages of 18 and 70.

Information about Pap tests and preventing cervical cancer in languages other than English is available by searching our resource centre.

Visit our online directory to find a clinic that speaks your language.

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