HPV self-sampling in low-resource settings: An overlooked opportunity for cervical cancer screening
Related Experiment Video
Updated: May 26, 2026
Chromogenic In Situ Hybridization as a Tool for HPV-Related Head and Neck Cancer Diagnosis
Published on: June 14, 2019
Gunvanti Rathod1, Pragnesh Parmar2
1Professor, Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bibinagar, Telangana, India.
Despite advances in diagnosis and treatment of the disease, many women in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) still die from cervical cancer because of their inability to access effective screening programmes. The use of self-sampling methods has been found to be highly effective and acceptable to women, especially those who do not present for screening. This method is an under-utilized but highly practical approach and should be integrated into health centres' primary health care programmes.
Despite advances in diagnosis and treatment of the disease, many women in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) still die from cervical cancer because of their inability to access effective screening programmes. The use of self-sampling methods has been found to be highly effective and acceptable to women, especially those who do not present for screening. This method is an under-utilized but highly practical approach and should be integrated into health centres' primary health care programmes.
