Human papillomavirus, HPV, affects most women at some point in their life. Most of these infections do not show symptoms and usually go away alone. If HPV lingers, we look at complications including cancer, specifically in the cervix uteri.

Various states in India are evaluating strategies for testing for HPV infections for early detection of cervical pre-cancers and cancers among women specifically in rural regions.

Some of the challenges that need to be overcome to conduct HPV testing are:

1.    Educating the population on the risks of HPV infection and personalized forecasts on potential health complications.

2.    Enabling a safe and comfortable atmosphere for facilitating Gynecological examination and testing for HPV in the cervix uteri.

3.    Target the right population or sample sizes to ensure focused screenings/tests enabling optimal utilization of resources (HPV DNA screening kits for cervical cancer are expensive).

4.    Storage, Transport, and testing of sample kits in state-of-the-art diagnostic equipment in a central location.

5.    Digitizing results of diagnostic tests with necessary controls to ensure masking of PI and PII information. India is enacting and implementing Data Privacy acts.

6.    Ensuring diagnostic analyses are available for further research with predictive models to forecast a socioeconomic gradient by medical professionals and research scientists.

This is an exciting opportunity to build a scalable solution using Mathematical models to identify the suitable sample set for focusing on HPV testing along with a combination of Centralized and Endpoint(s) capabilities to securely record, analyze, transfer, and consume information derived from data. An opportunity that seeks the attention of many, including mine.