Tanahun District to Vaccinate Over 2,600 Adolescent Girls Against Cervical Cancer

Tanahun. Two thousand six hundred twenty-five adolescent girls in the district will be administered the HPV vaccine against cervical cancer. The Provincial Public Health Office, Tanahun, is scheduled to administer the HPV vaccine to adolescent girls from Magh 29 to Falgun 5 of this year.

Information Officer of the office, Sudip Kandel, informed that the vaccine will be given to female students currently in Grade 6, those who missed the vaccination in the last fiscal year, female students currently studying in Grade 7 to 10, and adolescent girls aged 10 who do not attend school, as well as those aged 11 to 14 who do not attend school and were missed in the last fiscal year.

Last year, 14,135 adolescent girls in the district were vaccinated. Kandel stated that the HPV vaccine will be administered to adolescent girls by operating centers in every school. It is estimated that 2,0169 women in Nepal develop cervical cancer every year.

Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of cancer among women and the primary cause of cancer-related death among women. Kandel mentioned that the HPV vaccine against cervical cancer is most effective when administered during early adolescence.