Culturally adapting and evaluating an evidence-based communication intervention with HPV self-sampling to improve cervical cancer screening among women living with HIV in Ghana: a mixed-methods study
Matthew Asare, Nancy Innocentia Ebu Enyan, Victoria Leighton Sencherey, Esther Lamptey-Mills, Sebastian Ken-Amoah, Patrick Kafui Akakpo, Rodney X Sturdivant, Dorcas Obiri-Yeboah · 2025
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Matthew Asare and co-authors adapt a talk-plus-self-test plan to lift cervical screening among women living with HIV in Ghana, in a study from two thousand twenty-five. A thirty-six-member board of patients, providers, and neighbors reshaped the plan. Forty-five users then graded the result.
Core parts stayed: self-sampling plus a three-step message frame. Hospitals and pharmacies were the top sampling spots, picked by near all. Voice notes in English and local tongues won as the delivery mode. Scores for fit, ease, and uptake ran high. Ease, privacy, and pride cut fear and raised engagement. Readers get a culture-tuned path to a lifesaving test.
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| CREATOR | Matthew Asare, Nancy Innocentia Ebu Enyan, Victoria Leighton Sencherey, Esther Lamptey-Mills, Sebastian Ken-Amoah, Patrick Kafui Akakpo, Rodney X Sturdivant, Dorcas Obiri-Yeboah |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |