Silvina Arrossi, Principal Investigator at CONICET, shared a post on LinkedIn about a paper she co-authored with colleagues published in the Pan American Journal of Public Health:
“We have published the first results from Latin America on the second round of HPV testing in a programmatic context, for the 42,307 HPV-negative women screened between 2012 and 2014 in the Jujuy Demonstration Project.
The analysis shows that 48% of these women returned after five years or more; however, if we observe the percentage of women who returned at five years, the figure drops to 13%.
The detection rate was 5.3 per 1,000 women. These results highlight the difficulty of ensuring a second round of screening and the need to discuss to what extent programs should implement structures to guarantee it, when often they are unable to ensure high coverage in the first round of screening.”
Title: Implementation of the second round of HPV-based screening for cervical cancer in programmatic contexts in Argentina
Authors: Pilar Barcena Barbeira, Melisa Paolino, Fernando Binder, Maribel Almonte, Armando Baena, Juan David Mazzadi, and Silvina Arrossi
You can read the Full Article in the Pan American Journal of Public Health.
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