Physical Health Mali Project #7509

HPV and Cervical Cancer Prevention for West Africa

by GAIA Vaccine Foundation

HPV and Cervical Cancer Prevention for West Africa

Project Report | Mar 8, 2017
GAIA's contribution to Women's day: Research on Women's health in Mali

By Eliza Squibb | Executive Director

Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices on HPV and cancer

After many years of hard work and research on cervical cancer in Bamako, Mali, our team is proud to announce the recent publication of two articles in PLOS ONE, a multidisciplinary Open Access journal.

The first article, “Knowledge, attitudes, practices and willingness to vaccinate in preparation for the introduction of HPV vaccines in Bamako, Mali” describes data collected from 301 interviews with men and women, adults and adolescents in Bamako. This study shows that Malians are very receptive to HPV vaccination, yet little is know about the virus and its connection to cervical cancer.

The second article, “Prevalence of HPV 16 and 18 and attitudes toward HPV vaccination trials in patients with cervical cancer in Mali”, investigates whether vaccine-preventable strains of HPV are present among cervical cancer patients in Mali. This study confirms that currently available HPV vaccines could have a significant impact on preventing cervical cancer in Mali. Similarly to the first study participants, cervical cancer patients are also eager for the HPV vaccine to be available in their country.

The publication of this research is a huge success for our Malian collaborators. We hope to help them promote their research careers and participate in international health conference to share their data.

Although GAIA’s research campaign ended in 2015, we are continuing to support screening supplies at 5 clinics to ensure women have access to prevention.

Our goal is to renew support for a screening campaign in conjunction with an HPV vaccine pilot program that will address HPV prevention for young girls in 2017. By training staff to perform screenings, we will not only ensure that women receive cancer prevention and treatment, but we will encourage them to seek HPV vaccination for their daughters.

On international women’s day, please support our initiative for Mother-Daughter cancer prevention in Mali!

Prevalence of HPV in Bamako, Mali

Links:

Link to GAIA's publications

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Matching Campaign Today Only!

By Eliza Squibb | Executive Director

Aug 17, 2016
Call to Action: Vaccinate 7,981 girls!

By Eliza Squibb | Executive Director

Mariam is the right age to receive an HPV vaccine

We are thrilled to be back in Bamako, and we’re writing you with a special request:

We met with our “Story-telling Cloth" collaborators to go over the results of the Community Education & Cervical Cancer Screening Campaign. When we met with the director of the National Immunization Program, she was very impressed with our report on high levels of HPV vaccination acceptance and extensive training of healthcare personnel for increased screening.

She informed us that there are leftover doses from the HPV Vaccine pilot program and they need to use them before they expire. She is wondering if she could do a campaign with the doses in the district of Bamako where we already educated the population with the “story telling cloth” program. This is the perfect opportunity to pilot a “Mother-Daughter Cervical Cancer Prevention” program so that moms can get screened and girls can get vaccinated in the same clinic appointment.

There are 7,981 leftover doses from her pilot project that they could give out in Bamako. These doses expire in November, and they need to get the doses out quickly. If we could get the vaccine to the community clinics we work with, then they will apply for the 2nd dose in 6 months so that all girls are fully protected against infection.

Here’s what we need to mobilize healthcare personnel and get those vaccine doses to girls in our community:

Weeklong census activity to register 10 year old, vaccine-eligible, girls in the district. ($2,000 would cover daily stipends and transportation for the census staff)
Supervision of the team of vaccinators deployed to clinics and community sites on vaccine campaign days. ($2,000 for daily stipends and transportation for the supervision staff)
Vaccinators’ salaries are already covered in the National Program budget.
Training for census staff, vaccinators and supervisors would take place in partnership with the Bamako public health office ($10,000 for a 2 week training event with the different teams).

With $14,000, we could get 7,981 girls vaccinated against HPV. Breaking down the cost per girl, that’s just $1.75 to get a child a vaccine that would otherwise go to waste.

So, what do you say? Can we make this happen?

Please join us to help protect girls from cervical cancer in Mali!

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