Prevalence of high-risk human papillomavirus infection and cervical lesions among female migrant head porters (kayayei) in Accra, Ghana: a pilot cross-sectional study.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe study complied with the Declaration of Helsinki (1964) and its later amendments. All study participants provided verbal informed consent before questionnaire administration, cervical sample collection, and visual inspection procedures. The consent procedure was approved by the Ethical Review Committee of the Catholic Hospital, Battor (approval no. CHB-ERC 0120/06/22), which also gave the researchers permission to publish the study findings retrospectively. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This project was funded by mPharma as part of the 10,000 Women Initiative which aimed to provide free HPV testing to 10,000 women in Ghana and Nigeria. None of the authors has any financial interests to declare."