Reduced cervical cancer screening in Zimbabwe as an indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for prevention

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to healthcare for women, including disruption of cervical cancer screening services. Zimbabwe is a high cervical cancer burden country, with the cancer being the leading malignancy among women. The disruptions in screening could have long-te...

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Autor principal: Murewanhema, Grant
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021
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Perspectives
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8052616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33912301
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.131.27852
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to healthcare for women, including disruption of cervical cancer screening services. Zimbabwe is a high cervical cancer burden country, with the cancer being the leading malignancy among women. The disruptions in screening could have long-term negative impacts on cervical cancer burden reduction in Zimbabwe. Factors related to institutions, policy, clients and healthcare workers have contributed to the decline in screening and need to be addressed urgently to restore this essential service.
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spelling pubmed-80526162021-04-27 Reduced cervical cancer screening in Zimbabwe as an indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for prevention Murewanhema, Grant Pan Afr Med J Perspectives The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to healthcare for women, including disruption of cervical cancer screening services. Zimbabwe is a high cervical cancer burden country, with the cancer being the leading malignancy among women. The disruptions in screening could have long-term negative impacts on cervical cancer burden reduction in Zimbabwe. Factors related to institutions, policy, clients and healthcare workers have contributed to the decline in screening and need to be addressed urgently to restore this essential service. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8052616/ /pubmed/33912301 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.131.27852 Text en Copyright: Grant Murewanhema et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Reduced cervical cancer screening in Zimbabwe as an indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for prevention
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title_full_unstemmed Reduced cervical cancer screening in Zimbabwe as an indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for prevention
title_short Reduced cervical cancer screening in Zimbabwe as an indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for prevention
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