Today, Samara and Matt went to Panlap Community Health Center. There was a great turnout of women from the local community to be screened. This was the largest group they had seen. Some women waited almost an hour to be screened. During each screening, Nurse Janet was able to complete three or more consultations. Samara and her team are hopeful that they will have enough interviews for the cervical cancer study. And for some good news, the Sierra Leone Ethics and Scientific Review Committee and Lehigh’s IRB gave the team approval to start the interviews! After the team heard the good news, they went to the printing store in town and printed the consent forms, surveys, and interview guides. They are hoping to interview women tomorrow! 

Panlap Community Health Center

Grace and Noah spent majority of the day at the World Hope office familiarizing with the Cervical Cancer Study so that they are more than prepared for the beginning of interviews tomorrow. This consisted of reading over the submitted IRB and discussing the interview questions. Going over the process of interviewing was highly beneficial. Additionally, Grace had updated the Ukweli website and created a team email so that all data collected by Hassan may directly to one place. During this time, Hassan was sent to preform for sales and engagements with new and existing clients. Once Hassan returned to WHI, the team discussed how the day went and how to move forward. We decided that tomorrow Hassan should aim to onboard pharmacies and utilize the log book we created and printed for him, as it is a could way to retain data.