Health Report - Immunizing Girls Against Cervical Cancer

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VOA Learning English, welcome to the Health Report in English. The GAVI Alliance is a partnership between public officials and private industry. The group provides vaccines to countries. Recently, the alliance announced plans for an immunization to protect 180,000 girls from cervical cancer. It has eight countries to start administering the vaccine for human , or HPV. Most cervical cancers result from HPV. The is passed through sex. Seth Berkley is chief executive of the GAVI Alliance. He says one woman dies two minutes from cervical cancer. That is more women die in childbirth. Dr. Berkley says an estimated 275,000 die from this cancer each year. And 85 percent the victims are in the developing world. He warns , without intervention, the estimate would reach 430,000 deaths a by 2030. The HPV vaccine is given to girls the ages of nine and 13. It is only before someone is infected with the virus. If infection take place, the virus may cause extremely small changes the cellular level. A Pap smear test or Pap can find those changes. But the test may not available to women in developing countries. If the infection not found, the cancer begins to grow and will . There are signs like bleeding. And after the cancer , there is painThe HPV vaccine will be administered as of school programs in Laos and seven African countries. seven are Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Sierra Leone Tanzania. Dr. Berkley notes that efforts must be made reach girls who are not in school. For VOA English, I'm Alex Villarreal. (Adapted from a radio program 06Feb2013)

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