The Ghana Health Service (GHS) in collaboration with the Municipal Health Directorates has introduced the Human Papiloma Virus (HPV) vaccine into Ghana’s routine immunization programme.  
This was scheduled after the nationwide campaign conducted in September 2025. 
Starting from January 2026, all girls, between the ages of 9-14, who did not receive the vaccine during the nationwide campaign would be vaccinated during out of school and school health services.  
This was contained in a press statement signed by Mrs. Wilhemina Duah Morttey, Municipal Director of Health Services in Tarkwa Nsuaem, and copied to the Ghana News Agency, Tarkwa.  
It said the overall goal of introducing the HPV vaccine was to prevent cervical cancer which remained one of the leading causes of cancer deaths among women in Ghana. 
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cervical cancer is the 4th most leading cause of cancer in women with around 660,000 new cases and 350,000 deaths in 2022.
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