{"id":283043,"date":"2019-08-01T19:03:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T23:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiaGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmpvdXJuYWxkdWNhbWVyb3VuLmNvbS9lbi9ldGhpb3BpYS1odW1hbi1wYXBpbGxvbWF2aXJ1cy12YWNjaW5lLWdpdmVuLXRvLTk2LXBlcmNlbnQtb2YtZ2lybHMv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-15T11:28:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:28:40","slug":"ethiopia-hpv-vaccine-96-percent-eligible-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/283043","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia says HPV vaccine reached 96 percent of eligible girls after 2018 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia's Ministry of Health said in 2019 that the human papillomavirus vaccine had been offered to 96 percent of eligible girls, APA reported, months after a nationwide school-based launch.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"size-large wp-image-837804\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/vaccination-clinic-sululta-ethiopia.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Children at a vaccinations clinic near Sululta, Ethiopia, May 2012\" \/><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Children at a vaccinations clinic near Sululta, Ethiopia, May 2012 (DFID \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0) [file photo]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WHO's Africa office said Ethiopia introduced HPV vaccination on Dec. 3, 2018, at Tesfa Kokeb Primary School in Addis Ababa's Lideta sub-city, aiming to reach more than one million 14-year-old girls through schools, with out-of-school girls served at health facilities.<\/p>\n<p>A global vaccine shortage forced the country to start with a single age cohort instead of the full 9-to-14 group of roughly six million girls, WHO said. Health Minister Amir Aman and State Minister Lia Tadesse led the launch; former first lady Roman Tesfaye spoke as a cancer-prevention ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>Cervical cancer, driven mainly by HPV, is a leading cancer killer of women in Ethiopia. The 2019 ministry figure reflected administrative coverage of the first target cohort; later WHO estimates for the broader 9-to-14 age group have been lower, so the two series should not be mixed without care.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalducameroun.com\/en\/ethiopia-human-papillomavirus-vaccine-given-to-96-percent-of-girls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">APA \/ Journal du Cameroun<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/afro.who.int\/countries\/ethiopia\/news\/ethiopia-launches-human-papillomavirus-vaccine-14-year-old-girls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WHO Regional Office for Africa<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s Ministry of Health said in 2019 that the human papillomavirus vaccine had been offered to 96 percent of eligible girls, APA reported, months after a nationwide school-based launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":837804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/vaccination-clinic-sululta-ethiopia.jpg?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1bDd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837816,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283043\/revisions\/837816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}