Acting on the call for cervical cancer elimination: Planning tools for low- and middle- income countries to increase the coverage and effectiveness of screening and treatment

Table 5 Summary of treatment outputs calculated in the Cervical Precancer Planning Tool (CPPT) by treatment scenario (Uganda example)

Women treated	Scenario 1	Scenario 2	Scenario 3	Scenario 4	Scenario 5
Number of screen positive women treated per year (total)	10,702	8,324	7,135	6,600	9,513
Number of women treated per year (HIV- or unknown)	8,006	6,227	5,338	4,938	7,117
Number of women treated per year (HIV +)	2,696	2,097	1,797	1,662	2,396
Treatment devices
Total number of devices	1,624	345	112	57	11
Gas cryotherapy^a	386	82	27	14	3
Non-gas thermal ablation^a	1,238	263	85	43	9
Equipment utilization (treatments per device per year)	7	24	64	116	832
Equipment utilization^b((percentage utilized) per device per year)	1%	2%	6%	11%	80%

Scenarios for deploying treatment devices and (% of eligible women who receive treatment): 1: Screen and treat (90%); 2: Hospital (70%); 3: District (60%); 4: District clustering (50%); 5: Hybrid static-mobile (80%)
^aAssumes 24% gas cryotherapy and 76% thermal ablation devices based on urbanization data in Uganda
^bBased on 1,040 treatments per device per year

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