Introduction
cancer, deaths, Cervical cancer, Cancer
CANCER, CERVICAL CANCER, CERVICAL CANCER, CANCER
Cervical cancer (CC) is the most common cancer and accounts for ~ 25% of all cancer related deaths among women in Uganda, who have one of the highest incidence rates in the world at 54.8 per 100,000 (African Cancer Registry Network, Barriers to CC screening include factors at the structural (poor access; few trained providers; national policies that frame CC as an outcome of the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus, which may stigmatize CC screening) (Dutta, Meyerson, et al., Building on theories of social diffusion (Rogers, 
Conceptual framework for promotion of cervical cancer (CC) prevention advocacy among screened women to affect CC screening among social network membersWe conducted a pilot randomized controlled trial of the intervention in which we enrolled women who had recently screened for CC to receive the intervention, as well as unscreened women from within their social networks (referred to as “alters”) to evaluate the effects of the intervention on alter uptake of CC screening. We hypothesized that the intervention would be associated with greater engagement in CC screening advocacy among intervention recipients, and greater uptake of CC screening among their social network members.