Acceptability of human papilloma virus vaccine and cervical cancer screening among female health-care workers in Enugu, Southeast Nigeria

Abstract

With more public enlightenment, available and affordable HPV vaccine appears to hold the key for prevention of cervical cancer in developing countries where the burden is high.

Knowledge and Attitude of Cervical Cancer Screening and its Prophylactic Vaccination Against Human Papillomavirus Among the Undergraduate Medical Students in a Tertiary Care Hospital

“…There are so many risk factors for carcinoma cervix like early menarche ,smoking, nulliparity and multiple sexual partners and the most common cause among this is sexual transmission of HPV infection in this study 81.75% of the students identified the HPV risk by sexual transmission and 18.75% did not aware of that , a study done by Borlu et al [10] found only 36.5% of the participants knew that cervical cancer is due to sexual transmission of HPV and their results were not identical from our current study and it is the most striking features should be known by the students .In contrast to our study findings were same as in the Nigerian study done by Ugwu et al [11 ] they also observed that more than 50% of the students were aware of HPV risk.…”

“…HPV vaccination is very useful in preventing cervical cancer and the awareness and hearing about vaccination was not adequate in few studies .In this about HPV vaccination against the cervical cancer 82.4%of the participants has good knowledge ,49.75% opted that contraception protects against HPV but it is not concurrent with a study done by Borlu et al [10] and Ugwu et al [11] and it was concurrent with Pandey et al [12] .Also most of the participants in this study did not aware the dosage and schedule of the HPV vaccine and is similar to the study observations in New Delhi [ 15 ].…”

Vaccination against Human Papilloma Virus in Adolescent Girls: Mother’s Knowledge, Attitude, Desire and Practice in Nigeria

“…This study found a high level (83.9%) of cervical cancer awareness but much lower awareness of HPV (58.5%) and HPV vaccine (55.3%). This findings were comparable but slightly lower than 91% awareness level for cervical smear and 62.7% for HPV vaccination reported among women health workers in Nigeria and this collaborated with others within and outside Nigeria [15,23,24]. Being a health worker probably exposed them to the milieu of health information, which explains the higher awareness.…”

Providing Lifestyle Counseling to Cancer Patients during Routine Consultation: Instrument Development and Reliability

“…1,2,3,4,5 Limited number of qualified manpower especially oncology specialists as well as lack of finances are some of the challenges identified. Various cost-effective strategies have been proposed to tackle these issues but due to the continued and glaring absence of a National cancer policy in the country; none is yet to be implemented.…”