85% of people will get an HPV infection in their lifetime. Almost every unvaccinated person who is sexually active will get HPV at some time in their life. Most women, including teens, become infected with HPV each year. Most HPV infections will go away on their own. But infections that don’t go away can cause certain types of cancer, this is why HPV vaccination is important.
HPV vaccination works.
HPV infections, genital warts, and cervical pre-cancers (abnormal cells on the cervix that can lead to cancer) can be prevented by HPV vaccination. Among vaccinated women, the percentage of cervical pre-cancers caused by the HPV types most often linked to cervical cancer have drops by 40 percent.
HPV vaccination is cancer prevention.
HPV is estimated to cause nearly 6700 cervical cancer cases in women every year in Kenya. HPV vaccination can prevent 5000 of these cancers by preventing the infections that cause them.
Preventing cancer is better than treating it.
HPV can cause several kinds of cancer. Only cervical cancer can be detected early with a screening test. The other cancers caused by HPV may not be detected until they are more serious. HPV vaccination prevents infections that cause these cancers.
Early protection works best.
Most children only need two doses of HPV vaccine when vaccinated before age 15 years. As a parent, take the advantage of the freely available HPV vaccination in all public health facilities in the country for girl child.
HPV vaccination provides safe, effective, and long-lasting protection.
HPV vaccine has a reassuring safety record that’s backed by over 15 years of monitoring and research.
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