HPV
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What health workers learned by sharing experience of HPV vaccination efforts
In October 2025, a health worker named Waheed Ali Soomro arrived at a school in Hyderabad, Pakistan, to vaccinate girls against human papillomavirus, or “HPV”. The parents were already angry. Their daughters had been lined up without prior notice, and WhatsApp rumors about the vaccine causing infertility had reached the community before Soomro did. He…
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Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030): National EPI leaders from 31 countries share experience of HPV vaccination
What difference can peer-led learning and action make for national EPI planners seeking new strategies to support HPV vaccine introduction or reintroduction? The stakes are high: HPV vaccination efforts, if successful, will avert 3.4 million deaths by 2030. On Friday, EPI focal points for HPV and other national-level MOH colleagues from 31 countries convened under…
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