Situation analysis in the selected LMICs with regard to cervical cancer and screening practices

Objectives

• To determine key parameters with regard to cervical cancer as well as to identify the current gaps of information and how to possibly address them. 
• To understand barriers and facilitators to attend conventional cervical screening and to explore alternative strategies to promote screening, one of them including the ELEVATE self-sampling testing device. 
• To assess the acceptability and willingness-to-use of the ELEVATE self-sampling testing device.

Tasks

1. Defining country profiles
2. Setting up implementation boards of national policy makers and health experts – National kick-off meeting
3. Formative data collection
4. Evidence synthesis of findings 
5. Survey among women for estimating local screening uptake and discrete choice experiment