SINGAPORE: Current and future cohorts of Secondary 1 female students can opt in to receive free Human Papillomavirus vaccination to protect them against cervical cancer, Senior Minister of State for Health Amy Khor announced during her ministry’s Committee of Supply debate speech on Wednesday .
Other countries such as the United Kingdom and Brunei also have similar programmes providing the vaccination in national school-based health programmes, and this is in line with World Health Organization recommendations, Dr Khor said. HPV vaccination in women was assessed to be cost-effective for the prevention of cervical cancer in Singapore.
In addition, MOH will introduce a more accurate test to screen for cervical cancer which can detect the presence of cancer-causing HPV strains and would require less frequent visits to the doctor, MOH said.
Also, not all experts think that the new screening test is better than Pap smears, and now there will be less frequent testing.
The mainstream media needs to use much more discernment when reporting about HPV vaccination. There've been more than 90,000 reported adverse effects, the Gardasil trials were seriously flawed, & the adverse effects experienced by participants in those trials were underreported.
HPV vaccination has not been proven to prevent cervical cancer and official statistics show that the incidence among young women in Australia, Britain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, & the Netherlands has actually increased since 2007.
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