![The human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes virtually all cervical cancers.](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/the-human-papillomavirus-hpv-910x512.jpg)
Human Rights Watch report blames restrictive insurance policies, lack of physicians and poverty for failure to treat cervical disease. Jessica Glenza, The Guardian — Cervical cancer, a disease researchers believe is on track to be eradicated within 20 years in some industrialized nations, is killing a disproportionate number of women across the American south. Black women in Alabama are dying of cervical cancer at more than twice the national average, a trend…