Pakistani parents reject HPV vaccine over fears of ‘infertility’
A health worker introduces HPV vaccine to a school student in Islamabad on September 24 2025. – AFP Islamabad: Misinformation plagues the first development of a vaccine for protecting Pakistani girls from cervical cancer, with parents knocking on their doors to healthcare workers and some schools closing for days. The country’s first HPV vaccine campaign aimed to grant hole to 11 million girls – but since it ended on Saturday, only about half of the intended doses were administered. A long -term conspiracy theory that vaccines produced by the West are used to limit the population is circulating online in
