Let your teenage daughters take HPV vaccine, specialists urge parents

In Kenya, 15 per cent of women have had sex by age 15 (Photo: Courtesy)

KOGS, the body of specialist obstetricians and gynaecologists practicing in Kenya, through its president Dr Kireki Omanwa, is assuring parents “that the vaccine is safe and that it is the surest way to protect girls from cervical cancer.”

The launch of the HPV vaccine in October 2019 was led by President Uhuru Kenyatta. “Let us not fight science,” the president said as he witnessed the first girls in the country get vaccinated.