IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONS PUBLISHED THE RESULTS OF A STUDY THAT ANALYZES THE FIDELITY OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE HPV SELF-COLLECTION (EMA STRATEGY) IN A REAL-WORLD CONTEXT OF LOW AND MEDIUM RESOURCES.BY USING MULTI-METHOD APPROACH INVOLVING QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS.

Melisa Paolino, Victoria Sánchez Antelo, Milca Cuberli, Mariana Curotto, Anabella Le Pera, Fernando Binder, Juan David Mazzadi, Beatriz Firmenich and Silvina Arrossi carried out a fidelity evaluation of the EMA strategy scaling-up aimed at evaluating the adherence to the core components of the EMA strategy, and the factors affecting the implementation fidelity.

This case study provides useful evidence about implementation fidelity during a scaling-up process that is key for countries that are considering the incorporation of HPV self-collection into their cervical cancer prevention programs.