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News: WHO guidelines for cervical cancer prevention - out now (10 February 2014)

WHO has recently issued, for the first time, guidelines for screening and treatment of precancerous lesions for cervical cancer prevention. The guidelines include
recommendations, based on the available evidence, on the use of a screen and
treat approach using visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) for screening and
treatment with cryotherapy, or when feasible HPV testing followed by treatment.

News: 8th Cervical Cancer Prevention Week (19-25 January 2014)

The 8th Cervical Cancer Prevention Week took place during the week of 19-25 January 2014. There were several exciting events, meetings and workshops that took place across Europe during that week for one aim only, which is to raise awareness of cervical cancer.

News: World Cancer Day 2014 (04 February)

World Cancer Day takes place on 4th February every year.

World Cancer Day, organised by Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), "is a chance to raise our collective voices in the name of improving general knowledge around cancer and dismissing misconceptions about the disease. From a global level, we are focusing our messaging on the four myths above. In addition to being in-line with our global advocacy goals, these overarching myths leave a lot of flexibility for members, partners and supporters to adapt and expand on for their own needs."

News: HARP at the ICASA 2013 in Cape Town, South Africa (7 to 11 December 2013)

Admire Chikandiwa will be representing HARP at the forthcoming 17th International
Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA 2013) in South Africa, where he will
be making two presentations, including his award winning one*:

1. Epidemiology of Low Risk Human Papillomavirus infection (LR-HPV) and Genital Warts in HIV Positive Women in Africa: results from the HARP study (oral) (lead author: Admire Chikandiwa).
*This presentation has been selected for the Young Investigator Award from the Society for AIDS in Africa (SAA)

News: HARP at the EUROGIN 2013 in Florence, Italy (3 to 6 November 2013)

HARP project has two presentations accepted at the European Research Organisation on Genital Infection and Neoplasia (EUROGIN 2013) – they are available to view at the end of this newsletter:

1. Direct Comparison of the CareHPV and HC2 Assays for the Detection of High-Risk HPV Genotypes in HIV-positive African Women (oral) (lead author: Marie Noëlle
Didelot-Rousseau)

2. Comparison of Innolipa HPV Genotyping and Hybrid Capture-2 (HC2) Assays for the Detection of High-Risk HPV Genotypes and Cervical Intra-epithelial Neoplasia in

News: HARP's first publication is now available

HARP has published it's first paper on the 9 October 2013:

Ngou J, Magooa MP, Gilham C, Djigma F, Didelot MN, Kelly H, Yonli A, Sawadogo B, Lewis DA, Delany-Moretlwe S, Mayaud P, Segondy M; for the HARP Study Group. Comparison of CareHPV and Hybrid Capture 2 Assays for Detection of High-Risk HPV DNA in Cervical Samples from HIV-1-Infected African Women. J Clin Microbiol. 2013 Oct 9. [Epub ahead of print].

The abstract and a copy of the paper is available below.

Abstract

News: Award for Dr Admire Chikandiwa and the HARP team

Many congratulations to Dr Admire Chikandiwa (from WITS-WRHI, South Africa) and the HARP team on the selection for an award from the Society for AIDS in Africa (SAA) for the abstract submitted to the 17th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) in Cape Town, South Africa, from 7-11 December, 2013.

News: HARP at the STI & AIDS World Congress 2013 in Vienna (14-17 July 2013) - posters are now available

HARP staff have presented research findings of the project baseline study at the STI & AIDS World Congress 2013 in Vienna , which was held as a joint meeting of the 20th Meeting of the International Society for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Research (ISSTDR) , and the 14th World Congress of the International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI) .

HARP project has 3 posters presentation (posters are available below) at the STI & AIDS World Congress 2013:

News: The HARP Study Endpoint Committee (EPC) Meeting

The HARP study Endpoint Committee (EPC) met in Montpellier between the 8th to 11th January 2013 and was made up of the the HARP study pathologists from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (Prof Olga Goumbri-Lompo); Johannesburg, South Africa (Dr Tanvier Omar); from Montpellier, France (Prof Valérie Costes, Drs Sylviane Doutre and Hélène Perocchia); and an independent pathologist from the Institut Català d'Oncologia in Barcelona, Spain (Dr Omar Clavero).

News: 7th Cervical Cancer Prevention Week (20-26 January 2013)

The 7th Cervical Cancer Prevention Week took place during the week of 20-26 January 2013. There were several exciting events, meetings and workshops that took place across Europe during that week for one aim only, which is to raise awareness of cervical cancer.