To her, HPV is a killer virus; the only way to beat this virus, which can lead to cervical cancer is through the HPV vaccine. So, you can imagine how happy i was to get jabbed against the virus. The nurse told me that I am fully protected against the monster known as ‚cervical cancer,“ she stated.
Seeing the huge benefits of what a single dose of the HPV vaccine called Gardasil vaccine, could do, Miss John is therefore calling on parents to ensure their daughters aged nine to 14 get jabbed.
According to the United Nations Children‘s Fund, UNICEF’s health specialist Dr. Ijeoma Agbo, HPV is a widespread sexually transmitted infection that silently predisposes people to a number of malignancies, including cervical cancer.
Agbo, at a two-day media dialogue on HPV vaccine, disclosed that an estimate of 604,000 new cases of cervical cancer with 342,000 deaths occurred globally in 2020, while 12,075 cases and 7,968 deaths were recorded in Nigeria.
