Adamawa govt to administer HPV vaccines to 388, 180 girls

In order to protect them from cervical cancer, the Adamawa State Primary Healthcare Development Agency reports that 388,180 girls between the ages of nine and fourteen will receive vaccinations against the human papilloma virus.

In a Yola interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, Dr. Suleiman Bashir, the agency's executive chairman, disclosed this.

According to Bashir, girls are currently being sensitised to the virus and will be vaccinated against it for a duration of three months.

He continued by saying that the vaccination was given to girls between the ages of nine and fourteen in order to boost and protect their immunity before they were exposed to the virus.

The exercise has not yet started in the states of Borno and Yobe, although some residents of those areas claim that there is still debate over the vaccination.

“People are saying that the vaccine is harmful to fertility, we need clarification on this allegation from the authorities concerned.

“Nobody is talking for now and until that allegation is clarified, many parents won’t allow their daughters to be vaccinated,” Abdulkareem Ali, a parent with four daughters in Maiduguri, said.

The vaccination and enlightenment campaigns have not yet started, according to Dr. Goni Abba, Director of Public Health in the Borno Ministry of Health.

According to Abba, the vaccination programme was just started in Abuja last week, and state representatives who had been there had just returned. The ministry needed to meet to decide on the next course of action for the state's vaccination programme.

Alhaji Sabiu Suleiman, Head of Programmes at the National Orientation Agency, stated that plans had been finalised to launch a virus education campaign in Yobe, where the exercise has not yet started.

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