Cervical cancer is a critical public health issue in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where it is the
second leading cause of cancer among women and the leading cause of female cancer …

Compared to other regions of the world, sub-Saharan Africa has made limited progress in
the implementation and performance of nationwide human papillomavirus (HPV) …

Cervical cancer is the most common cancer in Tanzania. After excluding human
immunodeficiency virus, lower respiratory infections, malaria, diarrheal diseases, and …

Achieving WHO cervical cancer elimination goals will necessitate efforts to increase HPV
vaccine access and coverage in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). Although LMICs …

Immunization has saved an estimated 154 million lives over the past 50 years since the
launch of the Essential (formerly Expanded) Program on Immunization in 1974, representing …

Background The contribution of vaccination to global public health and community wellbeing
has been described as one of the greatest success stories of modern medicine. However …

Integration of vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) with other essential health
services for adolescents has been proposed in global strategies and tested in demonstration …

Low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) experience a high burden of cervical cancer. The
human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine prevents high-risk strains of HPV that cause cervical …

Tanzania has one of the highest cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates in sub-
Saharan Africa. The Tanzanian Ministry of Health developed an integrated adolescent …

Objective As part of the Dose Reduction Immunobridging and Safety Study of Two HPV
Vaccines in Tanzanian Girls (DoRIS; NCT02834637), the current study is one of the first to …