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Article History

Received: 11 October 2021

Accepted: 24 March 2022

First Online: 25 April 2022

Declarations

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: All methods were performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the following ethical committees. Ethical approval was provided by the Human Research Ethics Committees of the University of New South Wales (HC17632), the Australian National University (2017/516), the University of Tasmania (1320/17), the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of New South Wales (1320/17), the Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia (818), and the Department of Health of Western Australia (RGS0000000456). The project performed secondary analyses of existing administrative datasets that are held by states and national statutory bodies. Individual consent was not required based on Sect. 2.3.10 of the NHMRC’s National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (2007).

: Not applicable.

: JS was funded by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship, LW was funded by the NHMRC Early Career Fellowship (#1142035), and MS was funded by NHRMC grant (APP1159491) Cancer Institute NSW. RG was funded by an NHMRC fellowship (GNT1124647) and is a co-investigator on a project which received funding from Seqirus [unrelated to this project]. KC reports she is co-PI of an investigator-initiated trial of cervical screening, "Compass", run by the VCS Foundation Australia, which is a government-funded not-for-profit charity. The VCS Foundation has received equipment and a funding contribution from Roche Molecular Diagnostics. She is also co-PI on a major implementation program "Elimination of Cervical Cancer in the Western Pacific" which will receive support from the Minderoo Foundation and the Frazer Family Foundation and equipment donations from Cepheid Inc. However, neither KC nor her institution has received direct funding from industry for these or any other research project. All other authors have no competing interest to declare.