The country implemented a national vaccination program to prevent the disease in 2007. New data show that in 2021, no women under age 25 were diagnosed with cervical cancer, marking a major milestone The HPV vaccine defends patients against cervical cancer.  Tintin0312 via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Australia is on track to become the first country to eliminate cervical cancer, largely because of a national vaccination program to prevent the disease. It’s aiming to hit that goal by 2035, but a dip in immunization rates and cervical screenings is also raising red flags, according to the country’s most recent Cervical Cancer Elimination Progress Report . Still, no new cases of cervical cancer were diagnosed in women under age 25 in 2021, the latest data available, per the report. That’s a first since experts began keeping these records in 1982.…