The Indonesian Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) ensures that the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine given to girls does not cause infertility, after previously there was news that the vaccine was intended to sterilize.
“HPV immunization has been confirmed to be safe and generally does not cause serious reactions after immunization,” said Ministry of Health spokesperson Mohammad Syahril in a statement in Jakarta, Tuesday.
Syahril emphasized that HPV immunization aims to prevent cervical cancer caused by HPV infection, and its success can even reach 100 percent if two doses are given to girls aged 9-13 years.
He also explained the reaction at the injection site. Reactions in the form of redness, swelling and mild pain can occur one day after immunization and can last 1-3 days.
“General reactions such as fever can also appear after immunization,” continued Syahril.
He emphasized that Indonesia’s commitment to preventing cervical cancer is proven by the inclusion of HPV immunization in the National Immunization Program starting in 2023.
“To date, 135 countries have provided HPV immunization in their national immunization programs, including Malaysia, Singapore, America, England and France,” he said.
In line with this, the Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin believes that faster intervention is needed so that the results of the examination can be known immediately and continued with treatment in accordance with the diagnosis. One way is to change the testing standards to speed up the detection of stages of cervical cancer suffered by women.
“Therefore, the first thing that must be done is prevention. Because (prevention) is cheaper and makes the quality of life much better. So we must be able to detect cancer as early as possible,” said the Minister of Health (3/10).
For your information, HPV immunization is given in two doses to girls before graduating from elementary school/MI or equivalent and is given during School Immunization Month (BIAS) activities every August at school.
Data released by Globocan shows that the total number of cancer cases in Indonesia in 2020 reached 396,914 cases, with a total of 234,511 deaths. From this figure, cervical or cervical cancer was found in 36,633 cases or 9.2 percent of the total existing cancer cases.
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2023-10-10 01:48:39
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