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

• Main Authors: Ivana Di Salvo (Author), Dorcas Mnzava (Author), Giovanni Jacopo Nicoletti (Author), Elizabeth Senkoro (Author), Robert C. Ndege (Author), Dorothy J. Huang (Author), Nathalia Tobias Makunja (Author), George I. Kassiga (Author), Andreas M. Kaufmann (Author), Maja Weisser (Author), André B. Kind (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...