The Western Cape Department of Health has
vaccinated about 87 percent of grade 4 girls for Human Papillomavirus also
known as HPV.
The Department has also made provision for
the 13 percent of eligible girls who did not receive the vaccine during the
first round will have an opportunity in the second round between September and
October.
Provincial Department of Health’s Jo-Anne
Otto said 98 percent of the primary schools have been visited and vaccinated
and the 2 percent is mostly boys`s primary schools.
Otto added that the total cost of the
vaccine for each girl child is R 206.7.
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