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"Conflicts of Interest F.C. has received funds through the research center of the CHUM to evaluate HPV detection tests through his institution from Becton-Dickson and Roche Molecular systems. H.T. has received occasional lecture fees from Merck and unrestricted grants form ViiV Healthcare. All other coauthors have no conflict of interests."

"This work was supported by a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (Grant MOP-93564 and MOP-136833) to H.T. CIHR had no involvement in the study design, the collection, analysis and interpretation of the data, the writing of the report, or the decision to submit this article for publication. H.T. held a salary award (chercheur-boursier) for the duration of this study from the Fonds de la recherche du Québec en santé (FRQ-S) and from CIHR (new investigator salary award). M.-H.M. held a salary award (chercheur-boursier clinicien) from the FRQ-S until 2022. Funding for quality control of HPV testing was provided in part by the Réseau FRQS SIDA-MI to F.C."