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Experts say vaccination against cervical cancer is "necessary"
Cancer prevention experts say that a vaccine that protects girls from cervical cancer is a "necessary" health tool and must be made available as widely as possible.
According to data from the International Agency for Research on Cancer of the World Health Organization, about 570,000 new cases of cervical cancer have appeared in the world in 2018, making it the fourth most common cancer in women.
Cervical cancer kills 310,000 women every year, and most of them are in poor countries where the rate of vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) is low.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer said that some anti-vaccinations in rich countries persuaded some parents to refuse to vaccinate their daughters, putting them at risk.
"Unfounded rumors about HPV vaccines continue to delay or hinder its spread on a larger scale," said Elisabetta Vidrabas, director of the agency, in a statement.
She added that the agency was committed to fighting cervical cancer and that she "unequivocally baderted the effectiveness and safety" of the "uterine cervix and that she" unequivocally affirmed the effectiveness and safety "of the 39, injection of the HPV vaccine.
The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) has asked the World Health Organization (WHO) in a statement to support the continuation of the vaccination against the virus and announced plans to vaccinate 40 million girls in the poorest countries by 2020.
The coalition said it would avoid about 900,000 deaths.
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