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Kenya<br />
Priorities • Expand screening services to level 2 health centers.<br />
• Train more level 2 and 3 health workers on VIA/VILI.<br />
• Provide rural health facilities with VIA/VILI equipment and cryotherapy machines.<br />
• Have a national budget line on cervical cancer prevention and control.<br />
• Improve cervical cancer registry at the national level.<br />
Activities<br />
SHORT TERM<br />
• Train health workers on cervical cancer screening with VIA/VILI.<br />
• Advocate and create awareness on the availability of screening services.<br />
• Develop data collection tools on cervical cancer control.<br />
MEDIUM TERM<br />
• High-level advocacy for political support and good will; resources.<br />
• Lobby for provision of supplies and equipment at all levels.<br />
• Improve the quality of data collection.<br />
LONG TERM<br />
• Develop an HPV vaccine introduction plan.<br />
• Operational research on acceptability and misconceptions about cervical cancer.<br />
• Improve the quality of palliative care at the community level.<br />
Technical support • Training and development of training materials.<br />
• Building capacity for cervical cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and palliative<br />
care.<br />
• Developing a communication plan on cervical cancer prevention and control<br />
(strategic plan).<br />
Report of an African Regional Meeting on Cervical Cancer: September 2010 85