Learning from Rwanda
After just one year, Rwanda, among the world's poorest countries, reported vaccinating more than 93% of its adolescent girls against the human papillomavirus – by far the largest cause of cervical cancer. So why is HPV vaccine coverage in the world’s richest countries less than 30% in some places?
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GENEVA – How is it that Rwanda, among the world’s poorest countries – and still recovering from a brutal civil war – is able to protect its teenage girls against cancer more effectively than the G-8 countries? After just one year, Rwanda reported vaccinating more than 93% of its adolescent girls against the human papillomavirus (HPV) – by far the largest cause of cervical cancer. Vaccine coverage in the world’s richest countries varies, but in some places it is less than 30%.