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Promotion of HPV vaccination: potential gaps between knowledge and practices of Pakistani female family practitioners
  1. Maryam Sanaullah1,
  2. Sanaullah Bashir, MBBS2,*,
  3. Junaid Ahmad Bhatti, MBBS, PhD3,
  4. Ambreen Pardhan4,
  5. Amreek Kataria5
  1. Medical Student, Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan; mariamtariq27@hotmail.com
  2. House Officer, Civil Hospital, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan; sanaullahbashir@gmail.com
  3. Research Associate, Public Health Solutions Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan; drjabhatti@yahoo.com
  4. Medical Student, Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan; ambreen_pardhan@yahoo.com
  5. Medical Student, Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan; amreek.kataria@gmail.com
  1. * Corresponding author.

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Like most countries, cervical cancer is one of the foremost cancer types in Pakistani women.1,,3 Though human papillomavirus (HPV), the chief aetiological agent of cervical cancer, has a low prevalence in Pakistani women compared to its pervasiveness observed in females worldwide, its subtypes 16 and 18 are associated with about three-quarters of invasive cervical cancer cases in Pakistani women.2 Thus awareness about the HPV vaccination that has recently been marketed in Pakistan is critical to the promotion of cancer prevention initiatives at the national level. Regrettably though, only one previous Pakistani …

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