East African Business Week (Kampala)
Uwase Claudine
26 June 2011
opinion
Recently, Rwanda launched a Cervical Cancer vaccination campaign. The move covered about ninety seven percent of the school girls in and around towns.
The Vaccine program which began April this year targeted girls aged between 12 and 15 and it is said that the first phase is complete. I appeal to young girls who are yet to be vaccinated to heed the Ministry of Health Call by going to health centres all over the country.
The companies, pharmaceutical firm Merck and diagnostics manufacturer Qiagen, will provide supplies to vaccinate against and detect human papillomavirus (HPV) among the nation’s 2.7 million women. Merck will provide two million doses of its HPV vaccine. Am glad that the government has taken the cancer scourge seriously.
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