Experts warn about Venezuela's broken HPV vaccine promises
Time:2024-04-26 11:36:29 Source:entertainmentViews(143)
PUTUCUAL, Venezuela (AP) — Some of the 10 women and teenage girls who recently came to a medical clinic in eastern Venezuela for free contraceptives fidgeted a bit when a community health worker taught them how to use an IUD, condoms and birth control pills correctly.
The health worker also asked what they knew about HPV, the most common sexually transmitted infection in the world and the cause of nearly all cervical cancer. The women, ages 16 to 33 — two of whom had traveled to Putucual by boat and bus — only one had learned about human papillomavirus in middle school. The rest had talked about it with friends or cousins, but never their parents.
None knew HPV vaccines exist, even though Venezuelan pediatricians have long recommended giving all children the vaccine starting at age 9.
Previous:A US citizen facing drug charges in Russia appears in court. His case was adjourned until mid
Next:US applications for jobless claims fall to lowest level in 9 weeks
You may also like
- What to expect in Puerto Rico's Democratic presidential primary
- Revealed: Parliamentary aide, 29, and an ex
- Red Sox 1B Triston Casas out indefinitely with broken rib suffered on hard swing at plate
- Chinese envoy calls on U.S. to find right way to get along with China in new era
- ABBA film chronicling the Swedish band's rise to global stardom includes never
- Brits are told to 'go home' as anti
- Child murderer who abducted and killed schoolboy 50 years ago dies in prison of old age
- Dominica joins other Caribbean islands in striking down laws prohibiting gay sex
- Taylor Swift flew her private jets 178,000 miles last year for her Eras Tour