Chibwesha Lab

Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill

OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY

Chapel Hill · United States

NIH-funded
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NIH R01 · 2024

Acceptability and feasibility of combination treatment for cervical precancer among South Africa women living with HIV

ABSTRACT Cancer incidence, mortality, and disparities between rich and poor are projected to rise at staggering rates. It is estimated, for example, that cancer will kill one million Africans each year by 2030, with cervical cancer accounting for the most cancer deaths in African women. Global efforts to eliminate cervical cancer are currently focused on expanding access to HPV vaccination and cervical cancer screening. However, these efforts lack equal investment in treatment of precancerous cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2/3 (CIN2/3), particularly among HIV-infected women. This gap leaves a generation of HIV-infected women at high risk of persistent/recurrent CIN2/3 and…

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