Despite ongoing campaigns to promote regular monitoring of cervical cancer, Mpumalanga women to be taken in the countryside reluctan...
Despite ongoing campaigns to promote regular monitoring of cervical cancer, Mpumalanga women to be taken in the countryside reluctant and many think it is not worth it for Pap - tests to go because they do not get each result has.
But health workers who know in clinics are the current challenges that women still need their attempts to go, even if they think that it is a waste of time.
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women in South Africa, after breast cancer. the cervical cancer rate in South Africa is almost two times higher than the world average, among women with HIV at increased risk of developing cancer are living.
Recent studies have shown that other types of cancer, such as the anus, liver and lung cancer are also more likely to develop in people living with HIV
Some women in rural communities do not go for pap smears, because they believe that only women who are sexually active HIV-positive women and HIV are at risk.
Nokuthula Nkosi (39) from Esabelweni said: "I never went to a Pap test, because I thought it was for women who are sexually active and only positive women My husband died 13 years, honestly believed I was safe.. "
Most cases of cervical cancer caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) which is sexually transmitted. But women can be infected get the HPV for years without knowing what is important to have regular Pap tests to check them.
Although I know it is important to go for a Pap test, I do not want. The last time that I was doing a Pap test, 2013. I was stopped by because I did not my results. I took several times, but always "come back next week to tell.
Some women, like Connie Sibiya stopped to do Pap tests because they do not get the results of the clinic.
"Even though I know it's important to go for a Pap test, I will not. The last time that I was doing a Pap test, 2013. I was stopped by because I did not my results. I took the several times, but always "come back next week," said he said.
After the nurse Zodwa Zwane: "In some hospitals, they are lost not properly test results or But does not mean that women do not do their Pap smear.."
After Silindile Masinga, another woman who does not happen during the process, so the biggest challenge for the state institutions, offering the service is to do this once a week, so for people, it is hard work.
"I am living with HIV, and I know I should perform at least twice a year a Pap test. I remember once visited a hospital in Ermelo, but I could not go, because I was told that only 11 women to see that day and should be the following Friday occur 8 ", at- he said, to explain why it has not disappeared.
A revised version of this story appeared in Health24.
