As part of the Vision 2020 Links Programme, a team from the Diabetes Eye Screening Department at Homerton University Hospital in London, UK visited the University Hospital of West Indies (UHWI) in Kingston, Jamaica in June 2015. The purpose of the visit was to share the Homerton team’s experiences with the UHWI’s ophthalmic department in support of their plans to start a pilot eye screening pro...

An organised screening programme for cervical cancer (CervicalScreen Norway) was implemented in Norway 1995. The overall aim of the is to reduce incidence and mortality cancer, coverage should exceed 80%. Women target age group (25-69 years) are invited every third or fifth year depending on whether primary test a cytology smear an HPV (human papillomavirus) test. Since initiation, there have b...