Upscaling cervical cancer screening and treatment for women living with HIV at a rural referral hospital in Tanzania: protocol of a before-and-after study exploring HPV testing and novel diagnostics

Upscaling cervical cancer screening and treatment for women living with HIV at a rural referral hospital in Tanzania: protocol of a before-and-after study exploring HPV testing and novel diagnostics

Abstract Background Cervical cancer (CC) is nearly always caused by persistent human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. It is the most common cancer among women living with HIV (WLWH) and is the leading cause of cancer-related death in women in East Africa, with 10,241 new cases reported in Tanzania in...

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Main Authors: Ivana Di Salvo, Dorcas Mnzava, Giovanni Jacopo Nicoletti, Elizabeth Senkoro, Robert C. Ndege, Dorothy J. Huang, Nathalia Tobias Makunja, George I. Kassiga, Andreas M. Kaufmann, Maja Weisser, André B. Kind
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-03-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
Subjects:
Human papillomavirus
Mobile colposcopy
Cervical cancer
Cervical dysplasia
Women living with HIV
LEEP
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09113-3

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09113-3

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