Estimating the lost benefits of not implementing a visual inspection with acetic acid screen and treat strategy for cervical cancer prevention in South Africa

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This article uses Zambian data on coverage rates of visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA), together with data from India of mortality in a population screened by VIA, to reach the main estimation that one round of VIA screening would have prevented 50 cases of cervical cancer and 40 deaths from it, compared to South African data on cervical cancer mortality with prevailing cervical screening.

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Title: WikiJournal of Medicine

Abbreviated Title: Wiki J Med

Publisher: Wikiversity Journal of Medicine

ISSN (Electronic): 20024436

Publication date Created: 2015

Publication date (Print): 2015

Volume: 2

Issue: 1

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DOI: 10.15347/wjm/2015.004

SO-VID: a11ab17f-e490-4c96-9b22-5eaede61e307

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