Reviewer’ s report
Title: Acceptability of HPV screening among HIV-infected women attending an HIV-dedicated
clinic in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
Version: 1Date: 23 May 2020
Reviewer's report:
This is a small pre-intervention qualitative study based on semi-directed interviews with WLWH.
The setting is absolutely appropriate, involving a single specialist and urban clinic beforeimplementation of an ANRS funded HPV screening study.Only 21 women were interviewed, divided into 2 groups recruited through the clinic directly orthrough an HIV-associated care association. Despite size and variation between groups,similarities were clear, thus allowing team to design knowledge and understanding sessions priorto introduction of HPV-based screening.It could be argued that the results are essential information for the research team, but notnecessarily generalizable ( as indicated by authors in discussion). The Abstract contains thesentence 'Further research is needed to assess the implementation of HPV-based screening strategyamong women living with HIV in low-resources setting', implying a generalizable need. It is notso much that further research is needed but more that every study needs similar pre-interventionefforts to adapt to local context. This is worded better in the conclusions in the text 'Further studiesassessing the acceptability to women and healthcare workers of the new strategy during itsimplementation will be important'. I would suggest greater clarity round this point.
The quotations are interesting and helpful
Table 2 header -it would be helpful to identify each group as 'A' and 'R'
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