midwives, and other community healthcare providers who are now trained and certified in the “See and Treat” procedure. Despite the short time we had, the CCC trainers and their trainees screened 618 women and saw 119 patients who were VIA positive resulting in an overall positivity rate of 19.3% during this week long training.Extrapolating this data, if our newly trained “See and Treat” healthcare providers operate 25% of the rate we did this week for just a year, they could screen approximately 7,400 total women and of this number, 1,400 women would be VIA positive (given the same positivity rate).
Throughout the week, the trainees had attended a two hour informational lecture on the “see and treat” method, learned how to distinguish VIA positive lesions from VIA negative, and performed the cryotherapy procedure under supervision at least 5 times. It is with great pleasure and profound gratitude that we welcome our new trainees to the CCC team and we look forward to returning soon! Authored by: Yvonne Nong and Stephen Morris, CCC Coordinators