Bangladesh has no organized screening program, but recently the government decided to expand opportunistic VIA screening, making it one of the first countries to introduce VIA for its national cervical cancer screening program. 13 A report on this program14 announced that more than 100,000 women over 30 years of age had been screened, with a VIA positivity rate of less than 5 percent—a very low rate, which was attributed to extensive training and to the predominantly Muslim population. .
