Background
communicable diseases, FGS, HPV infection
HPV INFECTION, COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, PARASITIC DISEASE, SCHISTOSOMIASIS, SCHISTOSOMIASIS
Health is a human right and, as such, health care should be accessible to all, regardless of gender, or geographical location. In the African Region, women are more likely to die from communicable diseases and other conditions than women in other regions [Female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) [FGS is a common consequence of schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease caused, in its urogenital form, by the trematode Schistosomiasis control strategies in highly endemic areas are mostly based on preventive chemotherapy through mass drug administration (MDA) with 40 mg/kg praziquantel (PZQ) for school aged children [Colposcopy is also a key clinical diagnostic tool for the prevention and management of CC [At the current state of the art, few studies have explored the associations of FGS, HPV infection and CC [Among SSA-countries, Madagascar is one of the countries with the highest prevalence of schistosomiasis [This study is based on data collected in the Boeny region of Madagascar, known to be highly endemic for 