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Health officials say the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is safe, following concerns expressed by parents since its introduction in August 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n The concerns regarding the vaccine’s safety were discussed at the Cervical Cancer Awareness Dialogue in Windhoek on Thursday, hosted by the Thrive Reproductive and Maternal Health Foundation.<\/p>\n A specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Katutura Intermediate Hospital, Dr Justine Mufenda, says there is misinformation circulating about the vaccine,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Health officials say the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is safe, following concerns expressed by parents since its introduction in August 2025. The concerns regarding the vaccine’s safety were discussed at the Cervical Cancer Awareness Dialogue in Windhoek on Thursday, hosted by the Thrive Reproductive and Maternal Health Foundation. A specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6808,6807,16852,5731,4706,724,257,6651,6803,254,20183,13567],"class_list":["post-223097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cancer","tag-cervical","tag-conspiracy","tag-health","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-officials","tag-safe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-theories","tag-vaccine"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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