SynthesisBMC women's health2023
Uptake and barriers to cervical cancer screening among human immunodeficiency virus-positive women in Sub Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Uptake of cervical cancer screening and its associated factors in Africa: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Cervical cancer screening uptake in East Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Utilization of cervical cancer screening and its associated factors among women living with HIV in East Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC women's health · 2025Pooled it
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- Inclusion of marginalized populations in HPV vaccine modeling: A systematic review.Preventive medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Uptake of Cervical Cancer Screening Among Female Students and Staff at a Tertiary Institution in Northern Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Factors Related To Improving the Quality of Cervical Cancer Screening for Women Living with HIV in La Romana, Dominican Republic: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Motivations and hesitations for cervical cancer screening: considerations for scale-up of human papilloma virus (HPV) testing within HIV care in Zimbabwe.Infectious agents and cancer · 2026Article
- Follow-up rescreening among women living with human immunodeficiency virus who tested positive and treated for cervical pre-cancer lesions in South Ethiopia.The oncologist · 2026Article
- Barriers and facilitators of adherence to cervical cancer screening follow-up among women living with HIV in South Ethiopia: a qualitative study.BMC primary care · 2026Article
- Cervical Cancer Screening Cascade in Côte d'Ivoire: A Decade of Real-World Program Evaluation According to HIV Status.JCO global oncology · 2026Article
- Cervical Cancer Screening with Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA) among Women Living with HIV in Nairobi, Kenya: Results and Transformation Zone.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
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- Access to cervical cancer care in sub-Saharan Africa: a narrative review of barriers and opportunities.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- Health-seeking behaviour of rural women regarding cervical cancer prevention in Namibia: A qualitative study.Journal of public health in Africa · 2026Article
- Factors associated with cervical cancer screening among women attending maternal child health clinics in Kenya.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- Implementation of Clinical Practice Guidelines to Prevent Cervical Cancer: Mixed Methods Study.JMIR cancer · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundCervical cancer is the leading cause of disability and mortality among women in Africa. Despite a significant correlation between HIV/AIDS and cervical cancer, there is unacceptably low coverage of the uptake of cervical cancer screening among human immunodeficiency virus-positive women in Sub-Saharan Africa. Individual primary studies are limited in explaining the patterns of uptake of cervical cancer screening. This review therefore considers the uptake of cervical cancer screening and its barriers among human immunodeficiency virus-positive women in Sub-Saharan Africa.
methodsWe systematically searched articles published until December
resultsTwenty-one studies comprising 20,672 human immunodeficiency virus-positive women were included. Applying a random effect model, the overall cervical cancer screening uptake among this group of women in Sub-Saharan Africa was estimated to be 30% (95% CI: 19, 41, I
conclusionThe unacceptably low coverage of uptake of cervical cancer screening would indicate that the need to scale up the opportunities to these groups of women as well. This review revealed that in addition to structural and health care system barriers, sociocultural and personal barriers are powerful barriers in HIV-positive women. For these cohorts of population, a particular obstacle was discovered to be perception of an additional burden of having cervical cancer.
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