Tapche njindam, I: Cervical lesions and HPV amongst HIV infe

Cervical cancer is a preventable disease yet it is the leading cause of cancer-related morbidity and mortality among cameroonian women with over 1993 cases and 1120 death annually. AIDS-related illness are the leading cause of death of women of reproductive age (15-44years). Women living with HIV are at 4-5 times greater risk of developing cervical cancer.Cervical carcinoma accounts for approximately 470,000 new cases of cancer per year in the world,with 80% of cases occuring in developing countries and 50,000 new cases occuring each year in Africa. In Cameroon, according to the 2015 report in the evaluation and projection of HIV and AIDS in Cameroon, revealed that in 2015, 666,528 people was infected with HIV of which 58% of women, but current estimate of cervical cancer in HIV infected women are unknown. Human papilloma virus (HPV), a sexually transmitted infection is the necessary but insufficient cause of cervical cancer. Conscious of these facts, to contribute to the slowdown of this pathology a cross sectional study where therefore carried out to bring out plausible answers to our different questions asked and methodology on how to proceed to face this pathology.