Upscaling cervical cancer screening and treatment for women living with HIV at a rural referral hospital in Tanzania: protocol of a before-and-after study exploring HPV testing and novel diagnostics

Table 2 Procedures

	Screening (day 0)	Baseline (day 0)	Follow-up (Day 1 up to 6 months)	Follow-up (6 months)
Informed consent procedure	X	X
Eligibility check	X	X
Case report form (REDCapTM)		X	X	X
Point-of-care blood test (capillary sample) ^a		X
Laboratory-based analysis^b		X
Cervico-vaginal smear self-sampling ^c		X		X
Physical examination / colposcopy		X^d	X	X^d
Urine		X^d		X^d

^a PrevoCheck® with qualitative readout
^b Serum for PT Monitor® (quantitative analysis) and for Schistosomiasis antibodies
^c Seegene Anyplex ™ II 28 HPV, QG-MPH, STI and GS tests
^d Only if symptomatic, microscopy for detection of Schistosomiasis eggs

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