Assessing women's willingness to collect their own cervical samples for HPV testing as part of the ASPIRE cervical cancer screening project in Uganda

International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 111-115

  Mitchell, Sheona ^a   Ogilvie, Gina ^a,b   Steinberg, Malcolm ^b,c   Sekikubo, Musa ^d   Biryabarema, Christine ^d   Money, Deborah ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^e British Columbia Women's Hospital   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Human papillomavirus; Screening; Self collection; Uganda; Women's health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANCER SCREENING; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HOME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SELF EXAMINATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; UGANDA; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; WART VIRUS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 79960160680     PISSN: 00207292     EISSN: 18793479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2011.01.028     Document Type: Article

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