{"id":195432,"date":"2022-07-13T18:32:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T13:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=195432"},"modified":"2022-07-13T18:32:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T13:02:08","slug":"sii-to-launch-vaccine-to-prevent-cervical-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sii-to-launch-vaccine-to-prevent-cervical-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"SII to launch vaccine to prevent Cervical Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cSII to launch vaccine to prevent Cervical Cancer<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on <b>13th July 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Drugs Controller General of India(DCGI) has granted market authorisation to the Serum Institute of India(SII) for <\/span><b>Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine(qHPV)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> against cervical cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine(qHPV)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is India&#8217;s first indigenously-developed vaccine against cervical cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance of this vaccine:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Immunization with the qHPV vaccine can reduce the impact of cervical cancer. It can prevent most cases of cervical cancer if administered before girls or women are exposed to the virus.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Cervical Cancer?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cervical cancer is a type of cancer that occurs in the cells of the cervix \u2014 the lower part of the uterus that connects to the vagina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Various strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted infection, play a role in causing most cervical cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Globally, Cervical Cancer is the fourth most common cause of cancer among women in the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In India, Cervical cancer ranks as the second-most frequent cancer among women between 15 and 44 years of age.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cSII to launch vaccine to prevent Cervical Cancer\u201d published in The Hindu on 13th July 2022. What is the News? The Drugs Controller General of India(DCGI) has granted market authorisation to the Serum Institute of India(SII) for Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine(qHPV) against cervical cancer. What is Quadrivalent&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sii-to-launch-vaccine-to-prevent-cervical-cancer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SII to launch vaccine to prevent Cervical Cancer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":22,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698436932},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}