Two studies in Africa evaluated the feasibility of using two visual inspection methods for cervical cancer screening and assessed their performance in the field; the methods were VIA and visual inspection with Lugol’s iodine (VILI). Women in the studies were between 25 and 59 years of age, with at least 73 percent younger than age 45. The studies, in Tanzania and Angola, found that it is feasible to set up visual inspection screening programs in low-resource countries, the services are safe and well accepted, and health workers can be trained to accurately screen women for cervical cancer and precancer
