Description du projet
Lutter contre les inégalités dans le dépistage du cancer du col de l’utérus en Europe
Le cancer du col de l’utérus est le quatrième cancer le plus fréquent chez les femmes dans le monde. Bien que le dépistage du cancer du col de l’utérus (CCS, pour «cervical cancer screening») soit essentiel pour offrir un diagnostic rapide et pour réduire la mortalité, il semble être un privilège inaccessible pour les sous-populations défavorisées de femmes vulnérables. Le projet CBIG-SCREEN, financé par l’UE, a pour objectif de relever ce défi. Le projet se concentrera sur la création d’un cadre de connaissances paneuropéen sur les obstacles au CCS, ainsi que sur les infrastructures essentielles en matière de politiques, de programmes et de communication, permettant de répondre aux besoins des sous-populations défavorisées de femmes présentant un risque inhérent élevé de cancer du col de l’utérus et disposant d’un accès limité à des soins de santé appropriés.
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CBIG-SCREEN aims to tackle inequality in cervical cancer screening (CCS) continuum. Though CCS programmes drastically reduce cervical cancer mortality, they remain largely inaccessible and underused by subpopulations of vulnerable women, creating inequality in the European healthcare system. CCS programmes rarely reach the subgroups at highest risk, adding to the challenges underserved populations already face in their efforts to maintain their socioeconomic and physical health. CBIG-SCREEN will create a Europe-wide knowledge framework around barriers to CCS and generate policies, programmes, communications and other required services to meet the needs of underserved sub-populations of women with inherent high-risk of cervical cancer and low (perceived) access to proper healthcare routes. CBIG-SCREEN will be working collaboratively with vulnerable and underserved women to identify the interventions that will more effectively engage and retain them in CCS programmes in European countries. Through stakeholder engagement, mathematical analyses, and structured reviews of current policies, our consortium will collect, analyse, and share knowledge about shortcomings and opportunities for improving CCS continuum that will directly translate to policy recommendations and be used to adapt and extend national CCS with interventions tailored to vulnerable subpopulations. By deploying screening programmes aimed specifically to serve vulnerable women we can thus leverage limited resources to quickly reduce CCS mortality. Our interventions aim to reduce health inequality by increasing screening ratios among vulnerable women from 26% to 45% and intend to offer support to policymakers and national programmes to help Europe reach or exceed the WHO 2030 target of screening >70% of women for cervical cancer. CBIG-SCREEN project will realise the needed improvements in the European screening policies to address the current inequities and thus accelerate cervical cancer elimination.
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