In india cervical cancer is the second most cancer in women …there are 1.27 lakh cases and 80000
death annually reported …
What is cervical cancer
The cervical cancer is fatal tumor of the lowermost part of uterus it develops in the cervix ( the entrance from the uterus to vagina )
Cervical cancer mainly cause by HPV ( human papillomavirus) , HPV is extremely common virus that transmitted through sexual contact.

The government push the HPV vaccination of girls from 9 to 14 year against Cervical Cancer stands out as most important move towards safeguarding Women’s Well-being.

Cervical cancer on of the most deadliest and second most common cancer in women in india ,
there is huge need of vaccination drive to prevent the cancer , it majorly effected people
group between 9-15 girl

picture credit – Shutterstock

WHO (world health organization ) has set up the outline of “90-70-90” by 2030
90% of girl to be fully vaccinated by age of 15 ,
70% of women to undergo cervical cancer screening test by age 35 -45
90 % of the women with cervical cancer to be treated .
This has been remarked of global effort of HPV vaccination and eradicate cervical cancer
Cervical cancer and world
almost 100 countries have implemented vaccination and seen the decline in cervical cancer
Australia which initiated the HPV vaccination for girl in 2007 and in 2013 also include the boys and aimed to eradicate cervical cancer by 2035 .
Similarly most African country also successfully implemented the vaccination campaign and seen significantly reduced the effect of cancer
Out of 11 6 south east-Asia countries also introduced HPV vaccine ( Sri Lanka , Myanmar, Maldives , Indonesia , Bhutan , Thailand ) Bhutan is only country that include boys too.
INDIA
In Sikkim is very good example of successful implementation of HPV vaccine .. in 2018
sikkim achieved 97% of vaccination coverage , due to robust communication strategy ,
In Sikkim teacher , healthcare worker , parent , media promulgate the benefit of HPV vaccine

CHALLENGES NEED TO TACKLE
In india there need to be ensuring the access of availability of HPV vaccine.
Media and school should promote and talk about benefit of HPV vaccine.
There is lot of mistrust and misinformation regarding the HPV vaccine that need to eradicate.
and promote awareness regarding cervical cancer and HPV vaccine.
There should be online portal to ensure and track the vaccine registry and maintain the data of people .
Easy and free accessibility of HPV vaccine .
India is vast country and being vast there is lot of difficulty but govt need to aware about people regarding the cervical cancer and promote vaccination by un goal of 2030 ..
Government should take new initiative to successfully implement the HPV vaccine.