Self Administered Pap Test

A better tolerated and more effective specimen collection device, called the Fournier Feminine Multi-Test, used in conjunction with diagnostic laboratory processes to detect cervical and vaginal disease.

The tampon-like device is self applied to collect cell samples from the cervix. The specimen sampling tip is then deposited into a leak-proof vial and sent to the laboratory for a selectable array of tests to detect cancer, pre-cancerous conditions, Human Papillomavirus, Chlamydia, Gonococcus, and other cervical and vaginal diseases.

The Multi-Self test is invented by Dr. Arthur Fournier.

During his three decades of teaching and practicing medicine, the violation of privacy required for women to be tested for cervical cancer and sexually transmitted infections just never seemed right.   He says: "With all the modern advances in health care technology the pelvic exam seemed to me to be an anachronism - a relic from a more primitive era. Moreover, women are dying and suffering needlessly because of the natural and cultural embarrassment, discomfort, shame and, costs associated with the traditional gynecologic exam.

Over the past decade, humanitarian work in Haiti convinced me that there had to be a better and more tolerable way to screen for cervical cancer and sexually transmitted infections. In that time I have been following and investigating new technologies and approaches that can be combined to solve the fundamental problems of privacy, cost and convenience.

Now we are able to provide a consistent process that starts with a self-sampling device I’ve developed and includes diagnostic options of liquid-based thin-layer preparation cytology and molecular testing for the widest range of pathogens. The promise of a simpler, more private, more empowering approach to women’s health has been fulfilled."

To find out more about the Fournier DIY Pap test, here.

DIY PAP SMEAR

Do It Yourself PAP Test

Will soon post links to several DIY pap tests.
In the meanwhile you can already check them out @:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/womenagainststirrups/links/Gyn_Self_Exams_001101396200/

Women Against Stirrups

If you are a woman that wonders if things could be done differently at the gynecologist's office, then this may be just the group for you. We are a group critical of the highly valued pelvic exam in this society as we do not believe that womanhood is a disease. Eventhough there are already since years non-invasive, more accurate alternatives (like the CSA bloodtest) invented to check for the HPV virus, these tests are never being offered to women. In the meanwhile women are still placed in the stirrups and left behind in the dark about these innovative tests that could spare them the unnecessary humilation. That's why we want to offer women more information about the choices they can make that are truly benefitting their health by exchanging articles/websites on the subject that increase our awareness of existing alternatives and scientific facts about gynecological matters. The group also aims to make women feel secure and selfconfident again of their bodies, instead of being afraid of it. Several women have thanked us before because they gained so much more selfconfidence over their bodies and will no longer tolerate their bodies to be violated in the name of science.

**Recommended reading (though not obliged to join the group): Male Practice: How Doctors Manipulate Women by Robert S. Mendelsohn (If you are a woman living in America, the greatest danger to your health is, in all likelihood, your own doctor. Dr. Mendelsohn argues that chauvinistic physicians subject their female patients to medical procedures that are degrading, unnecessary and often dangeroous -- sometimes fatally so. Physicians order lab tests and x-rays more indiscriminately for women than for men, over-prescribe for their women patients, and intervine surgically far too often. Two of the most indiscriminately recommended surgical procedures are the hysterectomy and the radical mastectomy.)

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