This vaccine is very effective in preventing cancer in young women who have not been exposed to HPV. The sooner your daughter gets vaccinated, the more effective the protection will be. The vaccine does not work as well for those who were already exposed to the virus before getting the vaccine. DPH is confident that more than 70 percent of the cervical cancers in the CNMI will be prevented by this vaccine.
The HPV Vaccine is licensed and safe. Before it was approved, the vaccine was studied in 11,000 girls and women in the U.S. and around the world. These studies have shown no serious side effects. Almost 100,000 girls have been vaccinated already, including more than 1,000 in the CNMI. No serious side-effects have been reported to DPH.
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