Opinion: All women should have access to the at-home test that can provide early detection of cervical cancer
My husband, our first-grade child, and I managed to get on what was likely one of the last planes out of Nicaragua the day President Trump banned overseas flights from Europe due to the Covid-19 outbreak. It was an abrupt end to our latest journey to a part of the world where cervical cancer, which I study, often means a premature death with disastrous consequences for the family that is left behind.
It was difficult to leave Nicaragua — where we have family and friends, and where I have been working an ongoing study — not knowing when we would be able to return. My colleagues, students, and I at the University of Virginia have been collaborating for almost a decade with students and faculty at the Bluefields Indian and Caribbean University on community health issues, including cervical cancer.
