Preventing Cervical Cancer: Indonesian Ministry of Health Adds 3 Types of Vaccines to Protect Women’s Health

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – Cervical cancer can be prevented with HPV immunization. According to data from the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia (Kemenkes RI), more than 103 million women in Indonesia aged 15 years and over are at risk of developing cervical cancer.

Every year, approximately 36 thousand women are diagnosed with cervical cancer, and as many as 70 percent are in an advanced stage. The death rate from cervical cancer reached around 21,000 in 2020.

Data from Globocan in 2021 shows that there were 36,633 cases of cervical cancer in Indonesia, with the death rate increasing. Expansion of HPV immunization is needed to maintain the health of Indonesian girls in the future.

“The HPV vaccine will be provided free of charge and is very important to protect girls from cervical cancer. Mortality due to this cancer reaches 50 percent due to late diagnosis,” said the Director General of Disease Prevention and Control (P2P) of the Indonesian Ministry of Health, Dr. Maxi Rein Rondonuwu DHSM MARS as quoted from Healthy My Country on Friday, February 9, 2024.

According to Maxi, immunization is an economical way to prevent it. The cost of cervical cancer treatment is very high. “Tell the public, especially those who have girls aged 11 and 12 years, to take advantage of this government program,” he added.

Indonesian Ministry of Health Adds 3 Types of Vaccines

The Indonesian Ministry of Health continues to strive to improve health services at the basic level to protect the public from disease. One of the main steps in this effort is to increase the types of vaccines in the child immunization program, from 11 to 14. In this expansion, three new types of vaccines were added, namely:

Apart from that, continued Maxi, the Indonesian Ministry of Health also provides a second dose of injectable polio immunization or IPV2 to increase protection from polio.

2024-02-09 00:00:00
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