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Women can collect their own sample for the virus that causes cervical cancer; those who test positive can be treated the same day with a simple heat device. Done nationally, this could eliminate a disease that still kills hundreds of thousands of women a year.
WHO's cervical cancer elimination strategy sets 70% screening coverage with a high-performance test and 90% treatment of pre-cancer. Self-collected HPV testing removes the speculum exam that deters women, and portable thermal ablation allows treatment at the point of screening without histology. Point-of-care HPV tests now return results within an hour. The proposal is to make this combination, rather than cytology, the default national programme and fund it as a vertical campaign.
Shares Self-collected HPV samples are as accurate as clinician samples and reach women who never attend screening, Visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) for cervical screening, Prevention we already have is not deployed, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Self-collected HPV samples are as accurate as clinician samples and reach women who never attend screening, HPV & HBV vaccination, Cervical cancer.
Shares Global access and affordability roadmap: essential medicines and generics → biosimilars and frugal trials → reliance, pooling and homegrown innovation, HPV & HBV vaccination, Prevention we already have is not deployed, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Self-collected HPV samples are as accurate as clinician samples and reach women who never attend screening, Prevention we already have is not deployed, Cervical cancer.
Shares HPV & HBV vaccination, Prevention we already have is not deployed, Most of the world has almost no cancer care, Cervical cancer.
Shares Devices and physical therapies roadmap: heat and light → electric fields and focused sound → drug-releasing implants, HPV & HBV vaccination, Cervical cancer.
Shares HPV & HBV vaccination, Prevention we already have is not deployed, Most of the world has almost no cancer care, Cervical cancer.
Shares HPV & HBV vaccination, Prevention we already have is not deployed, Most of the world has almost no cancer care, Cervical cancer.