The Ministry of Health is committed to ensuring that all female students from the 2021, 2022 and 2023 cohorts receive the HPV vaccine before they finish school theSun theSundaily vaccine HPV students girls highschools government Malaysia
: To date, a total of 336,592 Form 1 female students from the 2020 to 2022 cohort have not received any human papillomavirus vaccine shot, said Health Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa .
“HPV vaccination for Form 1 students or teenagers who are 13 years old had to be postponed in 2021, due to a global supply disruption of HPV vaccines. “This means that there are a total of 187,151 students or the remaining 84.3 per cent who have not received the HPV vaccine for the 2021 cohort,“ she said when replying a question from Yeo Bee Yin in the Dewan Rakyat today.
Meanwhile, Dr Zaliha said that in 2022, the price of the HPV vaccine had increased six-fold and only 100,000 doses of the HPV vaccines were procured in December last year.
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