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Tue 11 Nov 2009Renewed calls for free cervical vaccine
THE INSTITUTE of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists is appealing to the Government to introduce the cervical cancer (HPV) vaccination programme at a cost next year of about €9.7 million.
The institute, in association with the Irish Cancer Society and the Irish Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology, is renewing its call for the vaccination to be made available to all 12-year-old girls, despite the abandonment of the mass vaccination plan two years ago due to lack of funds.
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