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New dawn for HPV vaccine uptake in Nigeria

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By Mercy Kelani

28 women become casualties of cervical cancer every day in Nigeria.

Professor of global health and behavioral science and health education at Saint Louis University’s College for Public Health and Social Justice, Juliet Iwelunmor, Ph.D., received a five-year $2.83 million grant award from the National Cancer Institute for enhancement of the understanding of HPV prevention in resource-restrained environments and empowerment of the girls and women in these environments. Through Actions for Collaborative Community Engaged Strategies for HPV, also known as ACCESS-HPV, girls and women will be engaged to provide sustainable, innovative and feasible ideas for increment of the uptake of essential human papillomavirus (HPV) prevention services across Nigeria.

The grant, referred to as for girls and women in Nigeria, aims towards expansion of HPV vaccination among girls and women between 9-26 years old and improvement of cervical cancer screenings for women between ages 30 and 49 years. In several sub-Saharan countries, cervical cancer is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Although the Nigerian government has recommended HPV vaccinations and the self-collection of cervical cancer screenings, uptake has been very poor. In Nigeria, there are 28 daily casualties of cervical cancer in Nigeria.

With support from NIMR and national HPV programs, HPV will end.

Currently, Nigeria only has 10 percent of women who have been screened and 14 percent of girls who have received vaccinations for HPV. The professor and her team will implement participatory crowdsourcing methods, as in her I-TEST grant in Nigeria, to enhance HPV prevention among young girls and women to enable an increased percentage of the vaccinated. Through this method, the multifaceted team would gain easy identification of locally relevant messages and methods of dissemination to improve the uptake of HPV prevention.

To foster an increase in the uptake of HPV vaccination among girls and HPV self-collection among mothers, mother-daughter relationships in the country can be employed. In the Nigerian cultural context, mothers and female guardians significantly influence decisions and preferences relating to the vaccination of young girls. Creation of an effective research structure and increment in the likelihood of successful implementation is certain through support of the Nigerian Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) and national HPV programs.

Education, inspiration and vaccination, will eliminate cervical cancer.

Iwelunmor and her research team are focused on determining how effective a final combined campaign on the uptake of HPV vaccinations among girls and women and HPV self-collection among mothers and female guardians can be. The SLU professor asserted that girls and women share an equal feeling of hope when they all come together to educate and be a form of inspiration to one another. Through this, it was predicted that there will be a change which will lead to the elimination of cervical cancer.

Initiation of strategies for creation of long-lasting impact in a certain community require the strength and intelligence of members of the community which, in this case, are young girls and women. The Saint Louis University researcher would implement this strategy through crowdsourcing framework to increase HPV vaccination and HPV screening for reduction of incidents of cervical cancer among young girls and women. This would be achieved through four-week innovation bootcamps, and participatory learning for building capacity for community-led implementation of the ideas.

SLU studies environmental influences in respect to people’s well-being.

The co-principal researchers of the team include director of research at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research Lagos, Oliver Chukwujekwu Ezechi, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of maternal, reproductive and child health at the Lead City University Ibadan, Nigeria, and Professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Joseph D. Tucker, M.D., Ph.D. The Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice studies, social environmental and physical influences while determining the health and well-being of people and communities.


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9 months ago

New dawn for HPV vaccine uptake in Nigeria28 women become casualties of cervical cancer every day in Nigeria. – Express your point of view.

Iyanu12345ogg
Iyanu12345ogg
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9 months ago

Women and girls should really get involve, they all need come together to educate and be a form of inspiration to one another. By doing this, there will be a change which will lead to the elimination of cervical cancer.

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Abusi
Abusi
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9 months ago

All these vaccines are aimed at helping women especially for problems they might encounter before child birth or after.

Adeolastan
Adeolastan
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9 months ago

This is a huge development towards reduction or eradication of cervical cancer because the disease is very deadly if it is not discover on time but with the introduction vaccination program towards it,it will reduce drastically and even totally eradicated.

Tonerol10
Tonerol10
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9 months ago

28 women become casualties of cervical cancer every day in Nigeria. That means, in a month 868 woman are expose to this cervical cancer. HPV vaccine should be taken serious and we need to create awareness

theApr
theApr
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9 months ago

In the nation, mother-daughter connections can be used to promote an increase in the uptake of HPV vaccination among girls and HPV self-collection among moms.

Remi1
Remi1
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9 months ago

In this instance, young girls and women must possess the strength and intelligence necessary to launch tactics that will have a long-lasting impact on the community.

DimOla
DimOla
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9 months ago

The rate of HPV among women is now on the raise thanks to Juliet Iwelunmor a professor of global health and behavioral science and health education at Saint Louis University’s College for Public Health and Social Justice, Juliet who received a five-year $2.83 million grant award from the National Cancer Institute to enhance the understanding of HPV among women. Through this grant more awareness and vaccination will be carried out. This will reduce will reduce the rate of infection and mortality rate among women.

SarahDiv
SarahDiv
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9 months ago

It saddens me that from the records 28 women are casualties of cervical cancer every day in Nigeria. With the grant released to Professor Juliet Iwelunmor of $2.83 million awareness will be made and vaccination will be carried out to prevent HPV amongst women.

Ultra0711
Ultra0711
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9 months ago

As time goes on the program organized will make people more aware how much it is important to take this vaccine against the deadly cancer.

Haykaylyon26
Haykaylyon26
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9 months ago

HPV vaccine should be make important for woman and girl to afford contacting cervical cancer this is for the benefit of the woman in the nation, eradicating this cancer is important and reduce number of woman become casualties of cervical cancer

Taiwoo
Taiwoo
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9 months ago

the National Cancer Institute for the purpose of enhancing our understanding of HPV prevention in settings with limited resources and fostering greater empowerment among the girls and women living in such settings.

Nwachukwu Kingsley
Nwachukwu Kingsley
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9 months ago

Girls and women will be involved to submit ideas for increment that are sustainable, inventive, and practicable through a program called ACCESS-HPV (Actions for Collaborative Community Engaged Strategies for HPV), which is also known by its acronym.

Chibuzor
Chibuzor
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9 months ago

The purpose of the award, which is stated to as being for girls and women in Nigeria, is to increase the number of girls and women between the ages of 9 and 26 who receive the HPV vaccination.

Hassan Isa
Hassan Isa
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9 months ago

Cervical cancer ranks high in terms of mortality and morbidity in a number of sub-Saharan nations. There has been very little acceptance of government-recommended HPV vaccinations and self-collected cervical cancer screenings in Nigeria.

Kazeem1
Kazeem1
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9 months ago

The multidisciplinary team would have an easier time identifying locally relevant messages and means of dissemination, which would ultimately lead to an increase in the number of people using HPV prevention measures.

Adesanyaj72
Adesanyaj72
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9 months ago

Young women and girls, as members of the community, possess the strength and intelligence necessary to initiate tactics with the potential to create a lasting influence.

Godsewill Ifeanyi
Godsewill Ifeanyi
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9 months ago

All this could be accomplished through the use of participatory learning and innovation boot camps that last for a period of four weeks in order to strengthen the capacity of the community to lead the execution of the ideas.

Christiana
Christiana
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9 months ago

Vaccinating against cervical cancer is a big step forward in reducing or eliminating the disease, which can be fatal if caught late.

Bola12
Bola12
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9 months ago

As a matter of urgency, women and girls should band together to share knowledge and serve as role models for one another. As a result of this action, cervical cancer will be eradicated.

Tolaniiii
Tolaniiii
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9 months ago

In order to raise the rate at which girls in the country receive the HPV vaccine, as well as the rate at which mothers engage in HPV self-collection, we can leverage the bonds that exist between mothers and daughters.