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30th August 2023
The PRESCRIP-TEC team, representatives from the Female Cancer Foundation, Friendship, and the Uganda Rural Development Programme. The PRESCRIP-TEC Project is a multi-country approach that focuses its research on increasing the adoption of cervical…
12th July 2023
Healthy Regions is a state-contributory organisation with the mission to implement and develop provisional countervailing measures in the health field. Currently, the organisation works in eight regions of Slovakia. Its task is to implement activi…
19th June 2023
Students from the Netherlands spent six weeks working with PRESCRIP-TEC partners in Bangladesh. Their main aim was to conduct a cost analysis of the project and for this purpose they spent most of their time with FRIENDSHIP, a non-governmental organi…
1st June 2023
On 17 November, 2020, the World Health Organization launched a global strategy to eliminate cervical cancer. From that moment, implementation began. Survivors, advocates, leaders, governments and communities rolled out activities in every region, mak…
25th May 2023
The different realities of women’s lives can immensely impact their access to education, employment and health care. Recognizing these realities is probably the first step in removing barriers which refrain the access to these important aspects of li…
12th April 2023
The members of village health teams are part of their communities. They are playing a very important role in the PRESCRIP-TEC project’s goal of reducing the incidence of cervical cancer in hard-to-reach or marginalised communities. Here a VHT member …
3rd April 2023
The PRESCRIP-TEC consortium met for the first time in person in Groningen on Thursday 30 and Friday 31 March. The meeting was attended by representatives from all countries where the program is being implemented. More than 9 nationalities together, r…
26th February 2023
Last Wednesday 1st February 2023 the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, presented the EU Country Profiles at the Conference on cancer held in Stockholm. The Country Cancer Profiles aim to identify inequalities, st…
31st January 2023
The PRESCRIP-TEC project is conducting implementation research into improving secondary prevention of cervical cancer through a unique screening method using a self-test for HPV infection. During November 2022 Dr. Jessica Vet of the Female Cancer Fou…
29th December 2022
Extensive in-person training of field-workers in Bangladesh was done at the end of November. The purpose was to train them in the use of quantitative data collection tools for an End-line study as part of the PRESCIP-TEC research. The training was…
