The health workers arrive on a wooden cart, hijabs blowing in the wind, as they are pulled along a dirt road by a horse. Sand swirls in the air as children run behind, trying to keep up. When the cart comes to a stop, the health workers climb out, holding large white boxes.
“We want to reach as many of the women here as possible,” says Nagma Khatun, a paramedic working in the Kurigram district of Rangpur in northern Bangladesh. In the boxes are self-testing kits for human papillomavirus (HPV), the main cause of cervical cancer.
