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Preventing Cervical Cancer: Stakeholder Attitudes toward fastHPV-Screening Programs in Roi-Et Province, Thailand
No full textObjective: To assess which of five fastHPV-inclusive protocols stakeholders in Roi-et province, Thailand found 1) most preferable and 2) most beneficial to the overall goal of reducing cervical cancer. Design: Five fastHPV-inclusive cancer prevention approaches were presented to a convenience sample of colposcopists, trainers, healthcare providers, district medical directors and district health officers. Participants ranked their preference for each Plan (A-E) compared to the current screening protocol and also the perceived comparative benefit of the plans. Plans differed in whether every patient was screened using both the HPV test and VIA or only HPV-positive women were screened with VIA; in clinician vs. self-swab; and in hospital/clinic-based or village-based screening. Results: Overall, participants supported an innovative plan in which women would be screened in their homes and villages using the self-swab version of the fastHPV DNA test, and only those who screened positive for HPV would be screened with VIA
Connections: Silicon Man and Burning Valley
Full text linkOnce a year, technology entrepreneurs drive out to the desert and set a 50-foot man-shaped bundle of sticks on fire during Burning Man, a bacchanalian expression of the values of Silicon Valley culture. Burning Man and Silicon Valley arise from the same geographic milieu, involve many of the same participants, and share important cultural values. The ten principles that epitomize its Burning Man\u27s philosophy, including values of creative expression (radical self-expression, immediacy), social structure (radical inclusiveness, radical self-reliance, participation), and economic philosophy (gifting, decommodification, communal effort, civic responsibility, and leaving no trace) are very similar to the elements of the Silicon Valley economic habitat This article explore these similarities and what their implications might be for these two cultural environments