Cervical Cancer Screening in Rural, Mountainous Honduras

La Hicaca and environs. VCU GH2DP Site, Yoro, Honduras

Congratulations to Rachel Pryor RN, MPH, who collaborated with us in our VCU Global Health and Health Disparities Program (GH2DP) on the ground in rural Honduras. 

Rachel took us out of our comfort zone to study barriers to cervical cancer screening in rural, mountainous Central America and is the lead author in a paper published in the Journal of Rural and Remote Health.

Although cervical cancer screening exists in rural Honduras, misconceptions and gaps in knowledge and access abound, along with poor availability of testing results. With our Honduran community health partners we are working to make a change.

The VCU GH2DP team will be back  in Honduras the first week of June 2017.