Merdeka.com – Head of Section for Non-Communicable Diseases, Mental Health and Drugs, DKI Health Service Jakarta, Endang Sri Wahyuningsih said the coverage of the HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine immunization in Jakarta has almost reached 70 percent. Vaccine recipients in this percentage are in elementary school age (SD).
Keep in mind the HPV vaccine is an effort to prevent the severity of cervical cancer.
“For schoolchildren immunization, coverage in DKI Jakarta until September 2021 has reached almost on-going 50-70 percent of HPV immunization coverage in DKI Jakarta for school-age children,” said Endang in a webinar,
Education Towards a Cervical Cancer-Free Indonesia 2030, Saturday (6/11).
Endang said that the DKI Provincial Government has made great efforts so that school-age children, especially those starting at level 5 Elementary School (SD), can 100 percent receive the HPV vaccine. Because, he added, cancer is the sixth leading cause of death in Jakarta.
Not to mention, Endang said, 70 percent of cancer cases found in Jakarta’s first-level health care facilities are already at an advanced stage.
“The fact that we face is that 70 percent of cancer patients come at an advanced stage, we often find them in first-level health facilities,” he said.
Endang did not deny, there are several factors that people are still reluctant to do the HPV vaccine. Among them are; lack of awareness for early detection.
“Then is the family support policy,” he said. [ded]
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