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Lesotho<br />
Priorities • Advocacy, generate new interest, instill new energy.<br />
• Involve policymakers (parliamentarians).<br />
• Develop a cervical cancer policy.<br />
• Cancer registry.<br />
• Financial resources for new technologies: DNA-HPV at point of care, and<br />
vaccinations.<br />
• Training and education.<br />
• Screening—VIA/cytology/DNA/colposcopy (pilot studies and full scale roll-out).<br />
• Human resource and infrastructure building for treatment (training of cytologists,<br />
oncology nurses, oncology doctors, radiologists; palliative care facilities).<br />
• Develop guidelines and indicators for monitoring and evaluation as well as impact<br />
analysis.<br />
• Research and development.<br />
Activities<br />
SHORT TERM<br />
• Advocacy, social and community mobilization, awareness campaigns, IEC materials,<br />
training workshops, orientation trainings, training of trainers.<br />
• Strategic plan and operational plan.<br />
• Operational plan.<br />
• Resource mobilization and partner collaboration (including public-private<br />
partnership).<br />
MEDIUM TERM<br />
• Develop screening guidelines and disseminate to professionals.<br />
• Infrastructure improvement; supplies and equipment.<br />
• Human resources.<br />
• Data management and evaluation.<br />
• Training of health personnel: lessons learned on new technologies.<br />
• Resource mobilization, need for continuous effort.<br />
LONG TERM<br />
• Secondary prevention (screening) and treatment facilities.<br />
• Procurement of equipment and supplies for cryotherapy, LEEP, colposcopy,<br />
histology, hysterectomy.<br />
• Training doctors and nurses, cytologists, histopathologists, radiologists, oncologists,<br />
palliative care practitioners.<br />
• Identify palliative care facilities.<br />
• Monitoring and evaluation.<br />
• Policy development and endorsement.<br />
Technical support • Consultative support for specialized training (cytologists, histopathologists,<br />
radiologists, oncologists, palliative care practitioners).<br />
• Exchange programs for training of trainers; pre-service curriculum.<br />
• Establishing an innovation fund.<br />
• Data management and integration.<br />
• Tele-medical solutions.<br />
• Cancer research institute.<br />
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