Fed up with smear test discourse. Attendance is low because the process is bad! Instead of changing it (home testing IS possible) we get coercive campaigns. So much in women’s health is about making us do painful things we don’t want to do rather than making the bad things better
The problem is not the people who don't want to go for testing, the problem is that the testing is not conducive for people to go and get it done.
A "demystifying chat" does nothing about the actual problem of physical pain other than to gaslight people into thinking that pain experienced in their vagina is merely all in their head
worth pointing out that on home tests, the swab is much shorter and only has to sweep the inside of the vagina (as opposed to a smear test which employs a speculum and brush to scrape cells from as far in as the cervix).
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