Progress Report on the National Cervical Cancer Screening Project
The burden of cervical cancer is huge in Africa and Nigeria accounts for a disproportionately
large part of this burden, partly due to inadequate screening of its population. Current estimates
indicate that less than 10% of women older than 18 years have ever screened for cervical cancer
in Nigeria. HPV testing, cytology and visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) are
recommended screening tests with focus on HPV testing as the primary screening modality.
Currently, the competing healthcare demands and economic, social, and political issues in
Nigeria makes it very unlikely to effect this recommended “rapid transition” away from VIA
based programs in many communities. A comparative assessment of the three screening
methods in identifying high-grade CIN or cancer (CIN2+) via a large community-based survey
in urban and rural-dwelling women is of utmost importance to obtain further information on
the clinical utilities of the methods in our resource-limited settings.
To this effect, in May 2022, CMIPD set out to collaborate with various institutions, centers and
individuals across the country (Nigeria) in a cervical screening project titled; a community
based comparative study of cervical cancer screening approaches among rural and urban
Nigerian women: A national cross-sectional study. It is a multicenter study in four different
communities in each of the participating states in Nigeria.
CMIPD has given out over 20,000 cervical screening kits and signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) with all its current partners on this huge project. A total of 17 tertiary
institutions were adopted for the project, however, by the end of 2024, 13 centers remained on the
project and over 5,000 women have been screened nationwide.
Find details below:
NATIONAL PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR / NATIONAL COORDINATOR: Prof. A.
A. F. Banjo, Department of Anatomic & Molecular Pathology, Lagos University Teaching
Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria.
LIST OF PARTICIPATING STATES AND COORDINATING CENTERS
S/N PARTICIPATING
STATE
COORDINATING CENTER
1 Oyo State Adeoyo Maternity Teaching Hospital, Ibadan
2 Osun State Uniosun Teaching Hospital, Osogbo
3 Cross-River State University of Calabar Teaching Hospital
4 Adamawa State Federal Medical Center, Yola
5 Kaduna Sate Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital
6 Kaduna State Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital
7 University of Abuja Teaching Hospital
8 Anambra State Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, NNEWI
9 Borno State University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital
10 Kano State Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital
11 Gombe State Federal Teaching Hospital Gombe
12 Lagos State Lagos University Teaching Hospital
13 Ogun State Olabisi Onabanjo Teaching Hospital, Sagamu Ogun State
14 SOGON (East
Region)
Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Nigeria (Eastern
Sector)
15 Osun State Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife
16 Edo State Irrua Specialist Hospital
17 Ekiti State Federal Teaching Hospital Ido-Ekiti
Facilities that dropped off the Project
The following facilities dropped off the project
- Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (No screening yet) -500 kits
- SOGON Eastern Sector (Dr Emily Nzeribe) – 4000 kits
- Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital – 500 kits
- Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital – 250 ki
NUMBER OF WOMEN SCREENED PERCENTER
S/N PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR STATE COORDINATING CENTER NUMBER OF
WOMEN
SCREENED
1 Dr Tawakkalt Afolake Olawepo Oyo State Adeoyo Maternity Teaching
Hospital, Ibadan
150
2 Dr Sekina Bola- Oyebamiji Osun State Uniosun Teaching
Hospital, Osogbo
287
3 Dr Boniface Ago Cross-River
State
University of Calabar Teaching
Hospital
49
4 Dr. Aisha Mustapha Kaduna Sate Ahmadu Bello University
Teaching Hospital
68
5 Dr Joel Adze Kaduna State Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital 407
6 Dr Habiba Ibrahim Abdullahi FCT University of Abuja Teaching
Hospital
230
7 Dr George Eleje Anambra State Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Teaching Hospital, NNEWI
12
8 Dr Ezenkwele Enugu State University of Nigeria Teaching
Hospital
62
9 Dr. Usman Aliyu Umar Kano State Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital 800
10 Dr Halima Usman Farouk Gombe State Federal Teaching Hospital
Gombe
445
11 Dr Olumide Adewara Ekiti Federal Teaching Hospital Ekiti 246
12 Prof. Adekunbiola Banjo Lagos Lagos University Teaching
Hospital
1000
13 Dr Yakubu Gana Niger State Federal Medical Center Bida 2000
Total women screened so far = 5,756
CMIPD has also supported all centers with a cash sum of 50,000 each to facilitate the
project.
Pictures of Liquid-Based Cytology Screening Kits sent to Collaborating Health Facilities across Nigeria
Pictures of Liquid-Based Cytology Screening Kits sent to Collaborating Health Facilities across Nigeria