Educated and Less Educated Caregivers: A Study on Cervical Cancer
Image Credit: ChatGPT There’s a disease called cervical cancer, and it can seriously harm women. A vaccine called HPV helps protect girls from getting it when they grow up. In Nigeria, some adolescent girls are receiving this vaccine, but not all. I just finished reading a recently published study on awareness, misinformation, and uptake of the HPV vaccine in Nigeria. The researchers, Sohail Agha & Ifeanyi Nsofor , sampled three states: Abuja, Adamawa, and Nassarawa. The findings were interesting. Caregivers with little or no schooling were more likely to see HPV vaccine ads online and were more likely to vaccinate their daughters. For instance, almost 9 out of 10 girls whose caregivers had no schooling received the vaccine. On the other hand, more educated caregivers - those with college or postgraduate degrees — were less likely to see the ads and less likely to vaccinate their girls. Only about 4 out of 10 girls with postgraduate caregivers got the vaccine. Normally, you’d ex...