SEYA Collective

We are in 2025. India is a global leader: the world’s fastest-growing major economy pioneering split-second digital payments and the first to land near the moon's south pole! With bullet trains and cutting-edge technology transforming the country, it seems we’re making progress in every sphere. Yet, for unmarried women in India, not much has changed . Despite these advancements, they still face systemic barriers to basic healthcare, with access to gynaecological services like Pap smears denied based on marital status. Ugh, only! Let me remind here that cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women in India and boosting screening services like pap smear test IS the ONLY way to reduce the disease burden. Denied once I was 32, working as a UNICEF consultant to the Ministry supporting national policy writing and roll-out, held a Masters and carried over a decade’s experience in the Indian development sector. Basically, my support work was to benefit 16 Cr rural househol...