Partners
Organizations United to WIPE OUT Cervical Cancer!
OPERATION WIPE OUT partners with leading organizations across Alabama and beyond who share our mission to eliminate cervical cancer. Together, through awareness, HPV vaccination, cervical cancer screening, and treatment initiatives, we're making a cancer-free future possible.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH – ABC PROGRAM
Planned Activities:
- Co-coordinate and provide oversight for OPERATION WIPE OUT
- Conduct community outreach, including cervical cancer screening events
- Implement educational workshops for community-at-large and healthcare providers
- Provide technical assistance to partners and others interested in implementing cervical cancer prevention and control activities
- Provide free cervical (and breast) cancer screening and diagnostic services through contracted providers across the state. Women 40-64 who have no insurance and have an income at or below 250% of the poverty level are eligible for services. If diagnosed through ABC, citizens are eligible for treatment through Medicaid.
- Provide an ABC hotline to ensure underserved women who are eligible for screening are referred to an ABC provider (1-877-252-3324)
- Provides educational materials and outreach statewide and in targeted counties in order to ensure women know the importance of cervical cancer screening and follow-up/treatment and that underserved women know about free screening through ABC.
- Partners with federally qualified health care centers to ensure women who are eligible for screening are offered screening by fostering process improvement and implementation of evidence-based interventions.
- Free diagnostic testing and pathway to Medicaid for treatment
ALABAMA COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CONTROL COALITION
Planned Activities:
- Conduct community outreach, including HPV vaccination and cervical cancer screening events
- Implement educational workshops
- Continue to engage coalition members in the OPERATION WIPE OUT mission
- Strive to achieve the cervical cancer prevention and control goals proposed in the Alabama Cancer Plan 2022-2027
ADPH – IMMUNIZATION DIVISION
Planned Activities:
- Conduct community outreach to increase parental, community, and provider awareness and education regarding the HPV vaccination. This includes print material and speaking engagements, which can be requested through our website
- Administer the Vaccines for Children (VFC) Program in order to remove vaccine costs as a barrier. VFC supplies the HPV vaccine at no cost to public and private healthcare providers who enroll and agree to immunize eligible children aged 9-18 in their practices or clinics
- Administer the ImmPRINT statewide population-based information system for all children born in Alabama. Participating providers report HPV vaccination provision through the system.
- Provide HPV Immunization data for Alabama through a Data Request Form on the website
- Continue to provide the online, on-demand dental provider education that trains pediatric dentists and hygienists on recommending the HPV vaccine to their 9–26-year-old patients
ALABAMA STATEWIDE CANCER REGISTRY
Planned Activities:
- Maintain a statewide cancer incidence reporting system for providing accurate and up-to-date information about cancer in Alabama
- Publish the Alabama Cancer Statistics report, a sourcebook of cancer data for Alabama
- Provide data regarding the burden of all cancers in Alabama to facilitate and assist in planning cancer control initiatives. Please see the website for policies, procedures, and data request forms
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
Planned Activities:
- Continue to work with a variety of health systems, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health plans, and professional organizations to impact focus areas that include cervical cancer and HPV vaccination.
- Continue to implement evidence-based interventions that impact prevention and screening rates and improve quality of care
HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL
Planned Activities:
- Educate college-aged young adults to encourage catch-up vaccination
- Conduct community outreach to provide education and possible screening event
- Train Nurse Practitioners to perform colposcopies
- Possibly perform Pap/HPV screening and colposcopy as needed in conjunction with trained APPs
LAURA CRANDALL BROWN FOUNDATION
Planned Activities:
- Conduct community outreach events, including cervical cancer screening events
- Provide financial and emotional support for women undergoing treatment for gynecological cancers
- Fund research grants through the Foundation for Women’s Cancers
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA MITCHELL CANCER INSTITUTE
Planned Activities:
- Conduct community outreach, including HPV vaccination and cervical cancer screening mobile events
- Community talks
- Partner with the Alabama Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program to navigate women through follow-up and treatment
- Partner with VAX2STOP to increase HPV vaccination recommendation among OB/GYN and primary care health care providers
- Continue to implement the TEAL & WHITE campaign
ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM
Planned Activities:
- Co-coordinate and provide oversight for OPERATION WIPE OUT
- Implement educational workshops along with UAB and the Alabama Department of Public Health
- Provide technical assistance to partners and others interested in implementing cervical cancer prevention and control activities, particularly Rotary Clubs
- Host the OPERATION WIPE OUT 2.0 SUMMIT
RUSSELL MEDICAL CANCER CENTER
Planned Activities:
- Write articles/editorials in the local newspapers/magazines
- Establish a county-wide consortium to promote education, cervical cancer screening, and follow-up in Tallapoosa County
St Jude Research Hospital
Planned Activities:
- Assist with the distribution of OPERATION WIPE OUT materials to community partners or potential partners
- Collaborate and help train providers by using the Announcement Approach Training and 3C’s training
- Invite community partners to attend trainings hosted by the St. Jude HPV Cancer Prevention Program
- Partner in school-based efforts
Tuskegee University
Planned Activities:
- Conduct community outreach, including HPV vaccination and cervical cancer screening events
- Write an editorial
- Screen the OPERATION WIPE OUT documentary
- Implement educational workshops
UAB DEPARTMENT OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY
Planned Activities:
- Co-coordinate and provide oversight for OPERATION WIPE OUT
- Conduct community outreach events, including HPV vaccination and cervical cancer screening events
- Implement educational workshops
- Provide technical assistance to partners and others interested in implementing cervical cancer prevention and control activities
- Continue to provide clinical care
- Continue to provide education and capacity building to students, residents, and fellows on cervical cancer prevention and control
- Continue to ensure cervical cancer prevention and control evidence-based strategies are disseminated and implemented at the population level
VAX 2 STOP CANCER
Planned Activities:
- Conduct community outreach
- Train private practices, health departments, FQHCs, and rural health centers on raising their HPV vaccination rates.
- Continue to provide the online, on-demand dental provider education that trains pediatric dentists and hygienists on recommending the HPV vaccine to their 9–26-year-old patients