From: http://healthpolicy-watch.news/cervical-cancer-commonwealth/
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Educational toolkits and self-sampling guides combat cultural stigma by empowering women with direct health information.
The combination of direct community engagement and grassroots mobilisation via youth-focused approaches by NGOs like Girl Effect, alongside advocacy groups such as Zambia’s Teal Sisters and the Belize Cancer Society, creates a comprehensive ecosystem for disease control. Global health leaders now cite Malawi as a champion model after a recent grassroots campaign targeting schoolgirls successfully extended HPV vaccine coverage above 90%.
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COMMENT (NPW): If I understand correctly, 'self-sampling' refers to self-screening for HPV using a vaginal swab. But I think these are only available in some high-income countries?
If you have contacts working in this area, please do invite them to join us: www.hifa.org/joinhifa
We are currently in discussion with WHO about the possibility of a HIFA project on cervical cancer. www.hifa.org/projects
This could also be a topic for a HIFA Spotlight www.hifa.org/spotlights
Best wishes, Neil
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org