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Rwanda
Priorities • Mass sensitization through community education and advocacy.
• Prevention of HPV infection (primary prevention).
• Screening and treatment of precancerous lesions (secondary prevention).
• Treatment of cervical cancer.
• Palliative care services of women with advanced cervical cancer.
• Monitoring and evaluation, and operational and basic science research.
Activities
SHORT TERM
• Adopt national cervical cancer screening treatment and prevention policy standards
and guidelines, and a five-year strategic plan.
• Raise awareness and advocacy for cervical cancer prevention and treatment.
• Build institutional and technical capacity at district and national referral hospitals.
MEDIUM TERM
• Primary prevention (immunization against HPV).
• Secondary prevention (screening and treatment of precancerous lesions).
• Establish reporting, monitoring, and evaluation of services provided at each facility,
including AEFI surveillance and injection safety.
• Palliative care.
LONG TERM
• Increase access to cervical precancer screening and treatment services by integrating
them into the routine package of clinical services.
• Monitoring and evaluation by conducting research that will inform program
decision-making and improvement.
Technical support • Administrative (tools for advocacy, social mobilization, guidelines, policies).
• Training (capacity building).
• Infrastructure development.
• Monitoring, evaluation, and research.
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