Singapore has showed suspicion on the executed program of immunasiation against the cervical cancer in the younger girls and for the precautionary measures, saying the possible effects must be studied further to prove its safety.
Minister of foreign affairs Mr. Balaji Sadasivan, showed its concern about vaccine used to immune girls against human pappilloma virus (HPV) which is the leading cause of the cervical cancer.
Individual parents can make their decision to vaccinate their daughters but the government should be more restrict and will decide the inclusion of vaccine in the childhood immunization program after reviewing the safety profile of vaccine.
Sadasivan, former health minister stated, “we don’t know whether vaccine have long-lasting effects or not. We also can’t say for sure that any other HPV strain will dominate in the future if we control the present.”
This vast immunization program can also spread the message that safe sex among youngsters had been ignored. “It’s not the matter of right or wrong but its only for the benefit of the state.”
The safety issue was raised when two Spanish teenager girls hospitalized after receiving the shots of HPV vaccine. Health authorities rolled back all the HPV vaccines from market after that particular event.
According to the recent data, cervical cancer, after breast cancer, has become the second most leading cancer among women of Asia-Pacific.




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