The Osun State Government has encouraged resident parents and guardians, to allow health personnel to administer the Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine, HPVV, to their female wards.
The HPV Vaccine is preplanned for female children between the ages of 9 to 15, to prevent them from contracting cervical cancer.
Dr Oluwole Fabiyi, the Executive Secretary of the Osun State Primary Health Care Development Board, had made this appeal during a sensitisation forum, organized by World Health Organization, WHO, and United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, in Osogbo.
Fabiyi also informed the participants that the vaccine was just like a regular routine vaccine exercise.
Adding to this, Dr Olawale Oluwabukola, the World Health Organization, WHO, Technical Officer for Human Papillomavirus (HPV) in Osun, had assured residents that the vaccine had been extensively researched, to determine the extent of its potency and its efficacy.
Oluwabukola had also disclosed that the implementation exercise for the vaccine is slated to hold between September 25 to 29, across the state.
