Reports from the Field Workshop on Screening for Cancer of the Uterine Cervix in Central America1
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A workshop on screening for cervical cancer was held in Managua, Nicaragua, from 21 to 23 November 1995. The workshop was sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization, Cancer Care International, the Canadian International Development Agency, the International Development Research Center (Canada), and the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Evaluation of Screening for Cancer, located in Toronto, Canada. In attendance were participants from all the Central American countries (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama), as well as Barbados, Canada, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and the United States of America. The objectives of the workshop were as follows:
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