{"id":62516,"date":"2024-03-12T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/mar\/12\/first-indian-made-hpv-vaccine-is-rolled-out"},"modified":"2024-03-12T18:00:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T09:00:01","slug":"india-gets-its-own-hpv-vaccine-to-stop-70000-women-dying-of-cervical-cancer-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62516","title":{"rendered":"India gets its own HPV vaccine to stop 70,000 women dying of cervical cancer a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has taken 18 years for India to produce its own affordable version to tackle the country\u2019s second-biggest cause of cancer deaths among women<\/p>\n<p>It is a Wednesday morning and Sneha Neurgaonkar sits on a gurney in a private hospital in Pune, India. The 14-year-old is at the Lalwani mother and child care hospital to receive the first Indian-made human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which prevents cervical cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the 10-year-old girl who was given the vaccine before her, Sneha knows what cervical cancer is and the damage it is doing to women in her country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/mar\/12\/first-indian-made-hpv-vaccine-is-rolled-out\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has taken 18 years for India to produce its own affordable version to tackle the country\u2019s second-biggest cause of cancer deaths among womenIt is a Wednesday morning and Sneha Neurgaonkar sits on a gurney in a private hospital in Pune, India. The 14&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2063,59,566,346,62,79,61,565,1792,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cervical-cancer","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-health","category-india","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-womens-health","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62517,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62516\/revisions\/62517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}