The World Health Organization (WHO) would like to thank the members of the Guideline Development Group and the Methodology Group for their constant availability and hard work. WHO is also very grateful to the External Review Group for making possible the development of these essential recommendations for screening and treatment of precancerous lesions for cervical cancer prevention. The names of the participants in each group are listed on pages v–viii.

In addition, we would like to thank the following staff, fellows, and students from McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, who contributed to the work of the systematic review but were not included in the discussion on recommendations: Adrienne Cheung, Charmaine Fraser, Shreyas Gandhi, Jessica Hopkins, Rohan Kehar, Rasha Khatib, Nancy Lloyd, Ahmad Mustafa, Marco Perez, and Wojtek Wiercioch.

WHO also wishes to express sincere gratitude to the Flanders International Cooperation Agency (FICA), the Institut National du Cancer (INCa), France, and the GAVI Alliance (formerly the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation) for providing the main funding for this document.

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