Care4Afrique: a pilot cervical cancer screening programme

Dr Farida Selmouni, coordinator of the Care4Afrique project, presents the project, the goals, and the lessons learned.
Care4Afrique demonstrates that implementation of cervical cancer screening by visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) followed by immediate treatment of precancerous lesions with thermal ablation in primary health-care services is feasible in resource-constrained settings.
Researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), in collaboration with the Lalla Salma Foundation for Cancer Prevention and
Treatment (Morocco), published a report summarizing the outcomes of the Care4Afrique pilot project that provides solutions to overcome some of the common system-level barriers to implementation of cervical cancer screening, which are faced in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Read the Care4Afrique report publications.iarc.fr/614