Cervical cancer was the seventh commonest cancer among females in Hong Kong and accounted for 3.0% of all new cancer cases in females in 2020. Cervical cancer is notorious for being prevalent and death-causing to women globally and locally. In the year 2020, cervical cancer accounts for 2.6% of female cancer deaths in Hong Kong. Regular Cervical Screening is proven to be an effective way of preventing cervical cancer. While there has been Government subsidized cervical screening services, only 1/5 of the women aged 25-64 registered in the Year 2021. Among them, low-income women could be particularly hard-to-reach comparing to their wealthy counterparts due to limited health literacy and lack of resource.

We aim to increase the uptake of HPV screenings in low-income women through providing subsidized self-sampling test kits. Meanwhile, educational workshops will be held to educate and raise their awareness against cervical cancer, provide an access to, and improve their to uptake cervical screenings. Participants will also be empowered to be Women’s Health Promotion Representatives and promote cervical screening to their peers. In the co-creation workshop, they will co-create a set of decision-aid with the project team to facilitate decision-making involved in the benefits of cervical cancer screenings. The decision-aid cards developed could open a new possibility to allow the woman in discussing their concerns in medical screening through the selection of illustrations. This project wishes to encourage disadvantaged women to uptake a regular screening habit through providing HPV self-sampling as an alternative screening option in the first place, and to sustain the impact via connecting them to public-funded screening service through empowerment and peer education.

Increase knowledge on the risk factors of cervical cancer, options available to prevent/diagnosis cervical cancer, the use of the self-sampling kit and other information on women healthGain positive attitude toward the importance and the need of routine HPV samplingIncrease self-efficacy in performing HPV self-samplingIncrease knowledge on potential solutions to overcome the barriers of conducting HPV self-samplingIncrease self-efficacy in organising cervical cancer-related health promotion events, including but not limited to HPV self-screening, Health Talk

• A total of 300 women aged 25-64 of low-income families living in informal houses, social houses, and public houses


• A total of 50 women’s health representatives being trained to promote HPV screening related knowledge


• A total of 50 NGO staffs who are serving low-income women communities

2023

Ethnic Minorities, Healthcare, Public Health, Well-being