Federal Govt Takes War Against Cervical Cancer To 16 States

Federal government said it has secured over six million doses of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine for the first phase of vaccination in 16 states,

The states include Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Enugu, Jigawa, Kano, Lagos, Nasarawa, Ogun, Osun, Taraba, and the Federal Capital Territory .

The director-general of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency , Dr Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this yesterday at a joint press briefing with the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control , on NAFDAC’s approval of use of Gardasil vaccine as single dose in the routine immunisation against cervical cancer, in Abuja.

“Nigeria alone contributes an estimated 12,075 new cases of global cervical cancer annually. HPV infection has been identified as a high-risk factor, implicated in 95 percent of cervical cancer cases. With 12,000 new diagnoses and 8,000 lives claimed each year, it translates to 33 new cervical cancer cases and 22 deaths every day in our nation,” he said.

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