Health are soon to launch a campaign to encourage parents to give consent for their daughters to have the HPV vaccination, which significantly reduces the risk of women contracting cervical cancer. Experience in other countries has shown the optimum age for the course of three injections, is 12, because girls of that age are considered old enough to discuss sexual health issues and are unlikely to have had any sexual contact. The efficacy of the vaccine, which is already in use in America and other European countries, decreases significantly once a woman is sexually active.
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