The Bogor City Health Office, West Java, has started carrying out immunization activities to prevent infection with human papilloma virus (HPV), the dominant cause of cervical cancer, targeting only grade 5 girls at primary school/madrasah primary school//equivalent and school-age girls who do not attend school until the age of 11. .
Head of the Bogor City Health Service Sri Nowo Retno in Bogor City, Saturday, said the target for grade 5 elementary school (SD) girls in Bogor City was 9,588 children, with a target of 95 percent. School Child Immunization Month (BIAS).
This activity takes into account the high burden of disease caused by human papilloma virus infection, which is 95 percent of the causes of cervical cancer and now that a safe HPV vaccine is available to prevent this disease, a new vaccine is added, namely the HPV vaccine into the BIAS program.
“Integration across related programs and cross-sectors is carried out through an existing forum, namely the School/Madrasah Health Business Development Team (TP UKS/M),” he explained.
Retno said that support from all parties was needed to successfully introduce new vaccines into the national immunization program.
As many as 95 percent of cervical cancer is caused by infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV) and is common in women of reproductive age. There are more than 100 types of HPV and about 40 types can infect the genital area.
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Editor : Yuniardi Ferdinand
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2023-08-13 00:49:15
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