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In Bauchi State, 46,592 girls were vaccinated against cervical cancer as part of the statewide HPV vaccination deployment.
The Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency announced this on Thursday.
According to the agency, it obtained 72% coverage during the October round immunization exercise, which was carried out in schools and communities across the state's 20 local government districts.
According to the agency's spokesman, Mr. Ibrahim Sani, the state has been named one of the three best-performing HPV rollout states in Nigeria.
He stated that the state targeted 638,185 girls for immunization against the disease and that the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency provided 468,400 doses of the HPV vaccine to ensure the exercise ran well.
Sani disclosed that the organization set up an HPV vaccine data bank and divided the immunization area into three zones to facilitate the monitoring process.
"The summarized situational data report on HPV coverage by age group revealed that 135,615 girls aged 9 years old received the HPV vaccine, accounting for 21% of the total identified group, and 324,977 between the ages of 10 and 14 years, accounting for 51%," he stated.
“This put the current percentage of the state total coverage at 72 percent, while the total number of uncovered population stood at 28 percent, respectively.
“Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer and the second most frequent cause of cancer deaths among women aged between 15 and 44 years,
Sani also mentioned insecurity, vaccination shortages, late submission of daily call-in data, and noncompliance as problems encountered during the experiment.
