Bandung (ANTARA) – BUMN Pharmaceutical holding company PT Bio Farma (Persero) has produced 3.1 million doses of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine called Nusagard to support the government in launching a free HPV immunization program throughout Indonesia.
Bio Farma Medical and Institutional Relations Director Sri Harsi Teteki said that his party had collaborated with the pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) from the United States to produce 3.1 million doses of the HPV vaccine.
“This is a collaboration with MSD to supply 3.1 million doses to be given to girls in grades 5 and 6 of elementary school,” he said when met at the Road to Zero HPV Stronger Together with Srikandi BUMN activity at the Bio Farma Complex in Bandung, Friday.
He said Bio Farma always supports government programs to reduce cases of cervical cancer by preventing it as early as possible.
“So the hope is that it can prevent cervical cancer, if the 5th grade elementary school child is not yet married, so before marriage they will be protected by the HPV vaccine,” he said.
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He explained that the HPV vaccine that Bio Farma had produced would be distributed to the Ministry of Health and then distributed free of charge to 38 provinces in Indonesia to support the target of eliminating cervical cancer by 2030.
“So, thank God, we are carrying out the Road to Zero HPV Stronger Together with Srikandi BUMN, this is in line with the government program. It is hoped that by 2030 Indonesia will be free from the number two killer disease for women,” he said.
Apart from prevention with the HPV vaccine, the company also produces a cervical cancer detector through urine called CervisScan.
He hopes that early detection through ServisScan can reduce the death rate due to cervical cancer in women in Indonesia.
“Urine examination is much easier, more comfortable, with a high level of sensitivity it can increase the early detection rate, so that treatment can also be carried out as quickly as possible,” said Sri.
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2023-09-15 15:16:52
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