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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 />

Report of an African Regional Meeting on Cervical Cancer: September 2010 86

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