VPH: Test de vinagre

http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1112863506/vinegar-test-cervical-cancer-screening
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Beginning in 1998, the research team enrolled over 75,000 women to be screened every two years using the vinegar test. A control group of 76,000 women received cancer education at the start of the study and vouchers for a free Pap smear test. Any participants who had cancer were offered free treatment at their local hospital.
Health worker Urmila Hadkar told the Post that many women resisted the procedure.
“There was a sense of shame about taking their clothes off. A lot of them had their babies at home and had never been to a doctor,” she said. “Sometimes just the idea of getting tested for cancer scared them. They would start crying even before being tested.”
When they were performed, the vinegar-based tests proved to be an overwhelming success. The study was slated to last 16 years, but results were so positive after the first 12 that independent monitors recommended offering it to the women in the control group.
In fact, the vinegar test was so successful that the US Office for Human Research Protections initially said researchers did not adequately inform participants in the control group about Pap tests for screening. However, officials later accepted how study leaders had handled the comparison group.
Officials in India have said they are already making plans to expand the vinegar testing to a wider population.
“It’s just not possible to provide Pap smear screening in developing countries,” said Dr. Surendra Shastri of Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai. “We don’t have that kind of money.”
In May, two companies announced that they will drastically lower prices on HPV vaccines for underdeveloped countries, with pilot projects beginning in Asia and Africa.