Abstract
Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination of young adolescent girls as a part of primary prevention of cervical cancer is now a routine practice in many countries. Bangladesh, a lower-middle income country, observed a successful HPV vaccination demonstration program recently. As much as the benefits of the vaccination programs are well-recorded, the ethics of administration of it is not focused highly; rather the focus tends to be on the most efficient method to get it done. In countries like Bangladesh, vaccination-related ethical issues are often overlooked. Thus, addition of HPV vaccination to the existing immunization programs calls for logical discussion and consideration to preserve the highest ethical standard in administering this vaccine to a sensitive age group of adolescence. This chapter summarizes some ethical concerns related to the HPV vaccination implementation in Bangladesh.
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Salwa, M., Al-Munim, T.A. (2021). HPV Vaccination in Bangladesh: Ethical Views. In: Bauer, A.W., Hofheinz, RD., Utikal, J.S. (eds) Ethical Challenges in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 218. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63749-1_3
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