Health Report - Malaria Prevention Efforts Miss Many Pregnant Women in Africa

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has one of the highest rates of cervical in the world. Ninety of every 100,000 Zambian get the disease. The Zambian government recently launched program to vaccinate schoolgirls against the human papillomavirus, HPV. The virus can cause cervical cancer. HPV spread through sexual contactThe government hopes to vaccinate between the ages of 9 and 11 against . The program was launched in May at several . One of them is the Kalingalinga Primary School Lusaka. About 100 students there received the HPV . Euphrasia Mweshi Mutale is a teacher. She was in efforts to inform the community about what expected to be a difficult subject. Ms. Mutale happy with the early results. She says people in the program met with parents and teachers tell them why it is good to vaccinate girls. She notes there have been no reported effects from the vaccine, like high body temperature skin discoloration. Mulindi Mwanahamuntu is a director of Cervical Cancer Prevention Program in Zambia. He says officials wanted to vaccinate 25,000 girls. But he there was some resistance from churches and other . Zambian and international health officials are working to the resistance by educating communities about medical issues. is third on the World Health Organization's list countries with the highest death rates from cervical . The country also has the highest cervical cancer in AfricaFor VOA Learning English, I'm Carolyn Presutti.

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