Reviewer’ s report
Title: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Cervical Cancer Screening Among HIV-positive
and HIV-negative Women Participating in Human Papillomavirus Screening in Rural Zimbabwe
Version: 0Date: 16 Jan 2019
Reviewer: Lisa Vallely
Reviewer's report:
This is an intersting and important piece of work.I have a few minor comments belw.Line 244: Suggest add year into line: Three months prior to sample collection.... women from 30-
65 years of age in their villages.Line 253: Remove word "ranging" at end sentence.Line 258- incomplete sentence.
One thing I am not clear about is whether the women's knowledge was assessed prior to the health
eduction provided by the community health workers or whether it was assessed afte thecommunity mobilisatoin/ information/ education.Please could you make this clearer in the methods. I can see you have touched on this in thediscussion (line 371-375) but maybe this needs to be clearer.
Line 280 : states HR-HPV collection. But this is really the vaginal swab that was collected by the
women.
Am wondering why the discussion section present the KAP results? MAybe this is results &
discussion
Line 325: Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Cervical Cancer and HPV Infection. I think this is
KAp relating to cervical cancer and HPV infection.
While I do get the feeling of knowledge I don't really pick up the aspects of attitude and practice in
this paper.
Also, of the women who provided a vaginal swab for HR HPV- how were their results manged.
Did you feed back results to them. How were women with HR HPV managed? Did they getfurther managemtn/ tretament??
Are the methods appropriate and well described?
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Yes
Does the work include the necessary controls?
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YesAre the conclusions drawn adequately supported by the data shown?
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Yes
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