Cervical cancer prevention in settings of high HIV prevalence
Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Cervical cancer prevention in settings of high HIV prevalence | |
| Creator | Menon, Sonia | |
| Description | Despite being a preventable disease, cervical cancer is still the second most common cancer in women worldwide. HIV infection is associated with a higher incidence, more rapid progression, and increased recurrence rates of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia and invasive cancer. The disease burden in developing countries is the result of inadequate national health care infrastructures that cannot establish or sustain comprehensive screening programmes, together with a high prevalence of HIV infection, particularly in southern Africa. In this article, clinically relevant issues for primary prevention of cervical lesions by a quadrivalent HPV vaccine and the ‘screen-and-treat’ protocol in settings of high HIV prevalence will be explored. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2011-05-26 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajhivmed.v12i2.192 | |
| Source | Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine; Vol 12, No 2 (2011); 18-20 2078-6751 1608-9693 | |
| Language | eng | |
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