End of embarrassing moments in cervical cancer screening

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Deaths associated with the disease are expected to go down drastically as local scientists roll out a new screening method which allows women to collect samples for testing all by themselves without the intervention of a doctor or a nurse. 

Jemimah Waswa, a computer sales lady in Nairobi, is worried stiff about cervical cancer. But the 32-year-old mother of two shudders at the thought of being screened for the killer disease. The screening procedures, she says, are too embarrassing and intrusive.