The Western Cape Department of Health
together with the National Department of Health will from today until the
middle of April be vaccinating all girls in grade 4 against Human
Papilomavirus.
The HPV will be given to girls who are 9-years
and older and who attend a public or special school.
Departmental Spokesperson in the Cape
Winelands Jo-Anne Otto said what is important is that the vaccination protects
the girls from being infected by HPV and thus reduces the risk of developing
HPV related cervical cancer later in life.
Otto said cervical cancer is the second
most prevalent cancer among women after breast cancer.
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