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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Low Genit Tract Dis. 2016 Jan;20(1):31–37. doi: 10.1097/LGT.0000000000000165

Table 2.

Screening Method by Country

Site (by region and country) No. Sites No. On-site Screening Programs Screening Method
No. Sites with Electronic Medical Records
Pap VIA VILI HPV Colpo/bx
Central Africa (n=6)
 Burundi 3 0 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
 Cameroon 2 2 2(100) 0(0) 0(0) 1(50) 0(0) 0(0)
 Rwanda 1 0 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
East Africa (n=18)
 Kenya 6 6 5(83) 6(100) 2(33) 3(50) 0(0) 5(83)
 Tanzania 5 5 1(20) 5(100) 1(20) 1(20) 0(0) 0(0)
 Uganda 7 2 1(50) 2(100) 1(50) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
Southern Africa (n=19)
 Botswana 2 2 2(100) 1(50) 1(50) 1(50) 1(50) 1(50)
 Lesotho 1 1 1(100) 1(100) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 1(100)
 Malawi 7 7 3(43) 7(100) 2(29) 2(29) 1(14) 1(14)
 South Africa 5 4 4(100) 2(50) 1(25) 2(50) 2(50) 3(75)
 Zambia 2 2 0(0) 2(100) 0(0) 0(0) (0)0 2(100)
 Zimbabwe 2 2 1(50) 2(100) 0(0) 0(0) 1(50) 2(100)
West Africa (n=8)
 Burkina Faso 1 1 1(100) 1(100) 1(100) 1(100) 0(0) 1(100)
 Côte d’Ivoire 2 1 1(100) 1(100) 1(100) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
 Nigeria 2 2 2(100) 1(50) 1(50) 1(50) 0(0) 1(50)
 Senegal 2 1 1(100) 0(0) 0(0) 1(100) 0(0) 0(0)
 Togo 1 1 1(100) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)

51 39 26(67) 31(79) 11(28) 13(33) 5(13) 17(44)

Data are n(%)

Denominator is the number of on-site screening programs

Pap – Papanicolaou test, VIA -visual inspection with acetic acid, VILI - visual inspection with Lugol’s solution, HPV – human papilloma virus DNA test, colpo/bx – colposcopy +/− biopsy