Cervical lesions and HPV amongst HIV infected and uninfected women

Cervical cancer is a preventable disease yet it is the leading cause of cancer-related morbidity and mortality among cameroonian women with over 1993 cases and 1120 death annually. AIDS-related illness are the leading cause of death of women of reproductive age (15-44years). Women living with HIV are at 4-5 times greater risk of developing cervical cancer.Cervical carcinoma accounts for approximately 470000 new cases of cancer per year in the worldwith 80% of cases occuring in developing countries and 50000 new cases occuring each year in Africa. In Cameroon according to the 2015 report in the evaluation and projection of HIV and AIDS in Cameroon revealed that in 2015 666528 people was infected with HIV of which 58% of women but current estimate of cervical cancer in HIV infected women are unknown. Human papilloma virus (HPV) a sexually transmitted infection is the necessary but insufficient cause of cervical cancer. Conscious of these facts to contribute to the slowdown of this pathology a cross sectional study where therefore carried out to bring out plausible answers to our different questions asked and methodology on how to proceed to face this pathology.