Community-tailored HPV vaccine confidence campaigns with school-based delivery
The HPV vaccine prevents most cervical cancer, but false safety claims have cut uptake in several countries. Rebuild confidence locally and deliver the vaccine in schools.
HPV vaccination collapsed in Japan after unfounded safety concerns and has stalled in parts of Europe and the US; countries with school-based programmes and sustained trusted messaging (Australia, Scotland, Rwanda) achieve high coverage and are seeing dramatic falls in cervical disease. The proposal is a programme combining school-based single-dose delivery, community-specific confidence work through trusted messengers, and rapid response to local scares, with coverage tracked at district level.
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