Parents with girls aged nine and 10-years are invited by the Ministry of Public Health, Social Development & Labour, Youth Health Care, to an information session about the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine on Tuesday, 17th December.
Parents with girls in the aforementioned age range attending the following primary school should attend: Leonald Connor, Charles Leopold Bell, CIA, Montessori, Sister Regina, and Seventh Day Adventists School.
The information session is being held at the Seventh Day Adventists School in Cole Bay which is located near the Orange Grove Shopping Plaza or across from Prime Distributors from 7.15pm to 8.15pm on Tuesday.
Youth Health Care falls under the Collective Prevention Services (CPS) and is responsible for the National Vaccination Program. The program is designed to prevent the country’s children and population from vaccine preventable diseases.
In September the Ministry of Public Health, Social Development & Labour introduced the HPV vaccine.
HPV causes cervical cancer which is the second most common cancer in women worldwide. In 2008, there were an estimated 529,000 new cases and 274,000 deaths due to cervical cancer. HPV viruses are common throughout the world.
The primary target group in most of the countries recommending HPV vaccination according to the World Health Organization (WHO) is young adolescent girls.
Data from clinical trials conducted in several continents show that the vaccines to be safe according to the WHO.
For additional information you can call Youth Health Care at: 543-2070 or 543-2071.