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Several developing countries have begun implementing the recently proven ‘Screen and treat’ approach using visual inspection methods and cryotherapy. Nonetheless, a dire lack of established screening programs in Nigeria necessitates proffering effective task sharing to improve the availability of screening at the primary care level thereby making it more accessible to women.

This study employed a cross-sectional, analytic design with competency-based training of health workers to underscore the competence of primary healthcare (PHC) workers to perform cervical screening. The degree of agreement for the visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) and visual inspection with Lugol’s iodine (VILI) results between the PHC workers and O & G doctors was determined using Kappa statistics, and indices of validity were used to express the accuracy of results. Results Following training, the PHC …