{"id":74273,"date":"2025-09-15T21:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/sep\/15\/pakistan-hpv-vaccine-rollout-cervical-cancer"},"modified":"2025-09-15T21:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T12:00:02","slug":"one-jab-will-do-the-job-pakistan-begins-rollout-of-hpv-vaccine-to-millions-of-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74273","title":{"rendered":"\u2018One jab will do the job\u2019: Pakistan begins rollout of HPV vaccine to millions of girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite vaccination hesitancy, the end may be in sight for cervical cancer, which kills 64% of women with the disease<\/p>\n<p>The questions come fast and furious: \u201cWhy only girls?\u201d, \u201cwill it affect her periods?\u201d, \u201ccan it cause infertility?\u201d, \u201cis it halal?\u201d Inside the airy sports hall of Khatoon-e-Pakistan government girls\u2019 school, the pupils in their crisp blue and white uniforms whisper among themselves, as their parents listen attentively to the health officials taking the session.<\/p>\n<p>While there are some fathers in the chairs laid out for the occasion, the majority are mothers. The groundwork is under way ahead of Pakistan\u2019s first nationwide rollout of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination campaign.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/sep\/15\/pakistan-hpv-vaccine-rollout-cervical-cancer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite vaccination hesitancy, the end may be in sight for cervical cancer, which kills 64% of women with the diseaseThe questions come fast and furious: \u201cWhy only girls?\u201d, \u201cwill it affect her periods?\u201d, \u201ccan it cause infertility?\u201d, \u201cis it halal?\u201d Insi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4979,"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":[2063,59,566,346,3276,60,79,61,565,1792,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cervical-cancer","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-health","category-hpv-vaccine","category-pakistan","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\/74273","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\/4979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74274,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74273\/revisions\/74274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}