Integrating voluntary family planning and cervical cancer screening and preventative treatment: lessons from the MULHER study in Mozambique

In four Mozambican public health facilities, 88% of 9,014 women eligible for HPV screening received both HPV screening and vFP counselling, with 21% taking up modern FP.

• Why it matters: Low cervical cancer screening and unmet contraception need in Mozambique create a service gap; integrating vFP with CCS&PT could improve reach and efficiency.
• What they did: The MULHER mixed-methods operational study used program monitoring from 9,014 clinical encounters and 504 exit interviews (Jan 2020–Oct 2022), plus IDIs with 60 clients and 15 providers (Oct 2021, Nov 2022).
• The result: Integrated service uptake was linked to parity, age, and HIV status, and qualitative findings reported broad perceived benefits, supporting feasible, acceptable scale-up to increase vFP uptake, including among new users.

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