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National Policies to Prevent and Manage Cervical Cancer in East African Countries: A Policy Mapping Analysis.
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- A framework policy analysis of single-dose HPV vaccination adoption in East Africa: a rapid review.BMC health services research · 2026Pooled it
- Cervical cancer prevention in countries with the highest HIV prevalence: a review of policies.BMC public health · 2022Pooled it
- Racial Disparities Associated with the Prevalence of Vaccine and Non-Vaccine HPV Types and Multiple HPV Infections between Asia and Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2021Pooled it
- Barriers and Facilitators to Cervical Cancer Screening in Northern Uganda: Qualitative Insights from Healthcare Workers and Administrators.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025Article
- AI supported diagnostic innovations for impact in global women's health.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2025Article
- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Healthcare Workers on Cervical Cancer Screening in Rural Healthcare Facilities of the Eastern Cape.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Factors Associated with Cervical Cancer Screening among Women at Selected District Hospital, Rwanda.Rwanda journal of medicine and health sciences · 2025Article
- Coordinating under constraint: a qualitative study of communication and teamwork along Ethiopia's cervical cancer care continuum.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Comparative content analysis of national health policies, strategies and plans before and after COVID-19 among OECD and BRICS countries.Global health research and policy · 2025Article
- RACK1 promotes the occurrence and progression of cervical carcinoma.Journal of clinical laboratory analysis · 2024Article
- Cancer in sub-Saharan Africa: a Lancet Oncology Commission.The Lancet. Oncology · 2022Review
- Cervical cancer prevention in Africa: A policy analysis.Journal of cancer policy · 2022Article
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- Risk factors for precancerous cervical lesion among women screened for cervical cancer in south Ethiopia: Unmatched case-control study.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
Policy mapping is used to provide evidence on effective interventions and highlight the necessary refinements of health policies. The goal of this work is to carry out legal mapping to identify and assess health policies for the prevention and management of cervical cancer in East African countries. Cervical cancer, as a largely preventable disease, is the cause of most cancer deaths among women in East African countries. Legal documents were searched uniformly from government websites, national cancer institute sites, and international and national legal databases, then the data were analyzed using the Nvivo12 software package. The sample of 24 documents includes policies, plans, guidelines, acts, and strategies from 12 East African countries. The emerging themes were screening, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, challenges, and mitigation efforts. A few binding policies, a significant discrepancy to international standards in at least four countries, patchy screening registries, and a lack of prophylactic vaccination against human papillomavirus incorporation into national immunization schedules are the main findings. This paper underlies the role of law in health and the need for transparent legal and regulatory tools to achieve a further reduction in cervical cancer mortality in East African countries.
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