Overview

This guide’s principal objective is to assist those responsible for providing services aimed at reducing the burden of cervical cancer on women, their communities and  health systems. It focuses on the knowledge, best practices and communication skills needed by health-care providers working at community and primary and secondary  levels of care to offer quality services for prevention, screening, treatment and palliative care for cervical cancer: the full continuum of care.

The four levels of care referred to throughout this guide are:

• Community
• Health centre or primary care level
• District hospital or secondary care level
• Central or referral hospital or tertiary care level.