Tag Archives: HPV

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A new study published in the Lancet Global Health has revealed that nearly one in three men aged 15 and above globally are infected with at least one type of genital human papillomavirus (HPV). The study also found that one in five men are …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health is planning to reduce the age at which girls get the Human Papilloma Vaccines which protects against cervical cancer. At the moment, the vaccine is given to females aged nine years of age. However, the health ministry wants to start …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As government struggles to ensure that girls of 10 years and above take the full dose of the Human Papilloma Virus-HPV shots, Dr. Jackson Orem, the Executive Director of Uganda Cancer Institute-UCI wants government to consider boys against the same virus too. HPV causes …

Study looking at 200,000 young women finds no correlation | THE INDEPENDENT | Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI). There are more than 100 Human papillomavirus (HPV) types that are transmitted sexually or via any skin-to-skin contact in the genital area. Low-risk HPVs mainly cause …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Health Ministry may not meet its target of vaccinating all girls of ten of age against the Human Papilloma Virus-HPV following a global shortage of the vaccine. The Human Papilloma Virus is a cancer causing virus, which is transmitted by men and can only …

Paris, France | AFP | “Unfounded rumours” causing people to spurn the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine was preventing the elimination of cervical cancer, which kills more than 300,000 women every year, health authorities said Monday. To mark World Cancer Day 2019, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) issued a …

By Flavia Nassaka Owing to the increasing cases of cancer caused by the Human papillomavirus (HPV), the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) is set to start vaccinating girls aged between 9 and 13 against the deadly virus. The first batch of girls will be vaccinated in October, UCI’s Dr. Noleb Mugisha …