Privacy draws Kenyan women to new cervical cancer screening method

Majority of Kenyan women would warm up to cervical cancer screening if they are saved the embarrassment of exposing their private parts to health personnel, a survey shows.

The survey on 327 women aged 18 to 60 years in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu shows that 87 per cent would be more likely to screen for the killer disease if they don’t reveal their private parts the way they do in traditional screening methods such as pap smear and Visual Inspection.