About the Authors

Mirgissa Kaba

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mirgissk@yahoo.com (MK); kallkidansolomon@gmail.com (KSD)

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Marlieke de Fouw

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gynecology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Kalkidan Solomon Deribe

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mirgissk@yahoo.com (MK); kallkidansolomon@gmail.com (KSD)

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Ephrem Abathun

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hospice Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Alexander Arnold Willem Peters

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gynecology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Jogchum Jan Beltman

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gynecology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

EA is executive director of Hospice Ethiopia. MF and JJ provided training and supervision of cervical cancer screening activities via the Female Cancer Foundation for the EFCI program. The authors declare they have no competing interests. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.