HPV Vaccine Makes Women Annoyed, Here's The Fact

Illustration of the vaccine (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) of the Republic of Indonesia ensures that the Human Papiloma Virus (HPV) vaccine given to girls does not cause barren, after previously news said the vaccine aims to guide. "The immunization of HPV has been confirmed to be safe and generally does not cause serious reactions after immunization," said Ministry of Health Spokesperson Mohammad Syahril quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, October 10. Syahril emphasized HPV immunization aimed at preventing cervical cancer caused by HPV infection, even its success can reach 100 percent if it is given as much as two doses to girls at the age of 9-13 years. She also explained related reactions at the injection site. Reactions in the form of reddening, swelling, and mild pain, can arise one day after immunization and can last 1-3 days. "The general reaction such as fever can also arise after immunization," continued Syahril. He emphasized that Indonesia's commitment to preventing cervical cancer was proven by the entry of HPV immunization into the National Immunization Program since 2023. "So far, there have been 135 countries that have given HPV immunization in its national immunization program, including Malaysia, Singapore, America, the UK, and France," he said. In line with this case, Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin assesses that faster intervention is needed so that the results of the examination can be immediately known and continued with the treatment that is in accordance with its diagnosis. One way is to change the standard of such testing to accelerate the detection of the cervical cancer stadium suffered by women. "Therefore, the first thing that must be done is prevention. Because (prevention) is cheaper and makes the quality of life much better. So we have to be able to detect cancer as early as possible," said the Minister of Health some time ago.

For information, HPV immunization is given as much as two doses to girls before graduating from elementary/mi or equivalent and is given in the School Children's Immunization Month (BIAS) activity every August at school. Data released by Globocan shows that the total cases of cancer in Indonesia in 2020 reached 396,914 cases, with a total death of 234,511 cases. Of this number, cervical cancer or cervix was found as many as 36,633 cases or 9.2 percent of the total cases of cancer.