Table 3.

Quotes from focus group discussions and interviews with care providers and women on negative contributors to the screening experience.

Number	Quote	Theme	Respondent
1.	It is not acceptable for someone to see your vagina except for when you're giving birth.	Undressing	Woman
2.	Some say they need a bath before being examined. They think they are not clean enough to open their private parts.	Undressing	Nurse
3.	[Women] do not want pieces of metal inserted in the vagina.	Fear of speculum/pain	Peer educator
4.	The uterus is pulled out cleaned and treated and put back inside.	Fear of speculum/procedure	Woman
5.	Even just hearing the sound of the instrument [a woman] will jump.	Fear of speculum/procedure	Nurse
6.	The chisimbi (steel rod) when inserting in the vagina pains.	Fear of speculum/pain	Woman
7.	People say they use the same instruments on all women.	Fear of infection from instruments	Woman
8.	The object that they push into the vagina, it brings other infections if it's not well cleaned.	Fear of infection from instruments	Woman
9.	Other women in the community they do not know that they screen for cancer here, they think that they only do HIV test.	Fear of HIV testing	Woman
10.	[Women] don't want to be seen at the cancer clinic. They want it to be a secret.	Stigma	Peer Educator
11.	There is only one nurse to do the screening, there are times when she is not there.	Understaffing	Woman