Aiming to protect 388,180 females from HPV, Adamawa

Aiming to protect 388,180 females from HPV, Adamawa
According to the Adamawa State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, 388,180 girls between the ages of nine and fourteen are to receive HPV vaccinations in order to guard against cervical cancer.


The agency's executive chairman, Dr. Suleiman Bashir, revealed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yola during an interview.


According to Bashir, females are currently being sensitized to the virus and will be vaccinated against it over the course of three months.


He went on to say that the immunization is intended to boost and protect girls between the ages of nine and fourteen before they are exposed to the virus.


The exercise has not yet started in the states of Borno and Yobe, however some residents of those areas claim that there is still debate concerning the immunization.


"People are claiming that the vaccine affects fertility; we need the relevant authorities to provide clarification on this claim.


Abdulkareem Ali, a Maiduguri parent with four daughters, stated, "Nobody is talking for now and until that allegation is clarified, many parents won't allow their daughters to be vaccinated."


The vaccinations and enlightenment, according to Dr. Goni Abba, Director of Public Health in the Borno Ministry of Health, have not yet started.


According to Abba, the vaccination program had only started in Abuja last week, and state delegates who had been there had just returned. The ministry needed to convene to decide on the next course of action for the state's immunization program.


Alhaji Sabiu Suleiman, Head of Programs at the National Orientation Agency (NOA), stated that plans had been finalized to launch a campaign of education regarding the virus in Yobe, where the exercise has not yet begun.


Alhaji Ali Yawale, the director of information for the Yobe State Ministry of Information, stated that the state was left out of the current vaccination schedule that the federal government had released.


"Yobe is not on the present schedule, but the human papilloma virus vaccination was recently unveiled by the Federal Government," he continued.


"But there are plans to start educating the public about the vaccine in all 17 local government areas."


Yawale stated that the public enlightenment would engage the media as well as other important players like traditional rulers, religious leaders, and civil society organizations.


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