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HPV Vaccination: Ministry of Health mobilizes

HPV Vaccination: Ministry of Health mobilizes

The Ministry of Health is conducting a national mobilization to encourage girls ages 9 to 13 to get HPV vaccination. The goal is to vaccinate about 1.7 million girls across the country.

The quadrivalent HPV vaccine is part of the national calendar and is available in about 36,000 vaccination rooms across the country. The goal is to vaccinate nine-year-old girls and also include those aged 10 to 13 who have not yet been vaccinated or completed the two doses required for effective immunization. According to the coordinator of the National Immunization Program of the Ministry of Health, Carla Domingues, the initiative is the best way to reach high levels of coverage, essential for the country. impact in terms of public health. "This will allow Brazil to have a chance, in the coming years, to have a generation of women free of cervical cancer."


Pap smear: who should do and what diseases the test finds

Pap smear: who should do and what diseases the test finds

The British organization Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust , focused on cervical cancer prevention, has launched a campaign on social networks to alert women about the importance of the exam of Papanicola. The #SmearForSmear campaign consists of posting photos using blurred red lipstick, making a joke with the name of the test in English: Pap smear.

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Actress was taking a pill when she became pregnant:

Actress was taking a pill when she became pregnant: "Maybe she forgot"

The actress Bruna Hamú, 26, is pregnant with her first child. Now with four months' gestation, she says the discovery of the pregnancy was a surprise, since she had been taking the contraceptive pill since the age of 16. During the meeting with Fátima Bernardes, Bruna said that she may have forgotten the medications times.

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