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Priorities • Training at various levels: TOT, pre-service, in-service.
• Establish good practice environment (a room, privacy, a good light, basic
equipment needed).
• Resource commitment/mobilization from the various stakeholders.
• Continued advocacy.
Activities
SHORT TERM
• Advocacy for cervical cancer screening in all social groups; prevention, palliative
care.
• Prevention services. Identify partners to support this.
• Relevant interaction with politicians.
MEDIUM TERM
• Target pre-service training to change scope.
• Strengthen in-service training.
• Country team to lobby for package to scale up screening (so that when women
bring children for immunization, they are screened).
• Continued advocacy and lobbying companies to implement a corporate
responsibility policy to support regular breast examination and screening for
cancer of the cervix for employees.
LONG TERM
• Comprehensive approach (primary and secondary prevention).
• Scale up programs.
• Address issues of equity.
• Advocate for policy change, e.g., where to assign gynaecologists, to certain
districts.
• Get support of past and new parliamentarians.
• Establish dialogue within the region to lobby as a common market for the HPV
vaccine, which can help obtain it at a reduced price.
Technical support • Technical support to ramp up passion in MOH leadership. (How do we do it? Who
can do it?).
• Assistance to help coordinate various areas, stakeholders (to leverage funds).
• Meet: MOH team—three participants (from this conference).
• Work with leaders HIV/AIDS program.
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