Cancer vaccines

HPV is sexually transmitted

Only a very small percentage of boys in Greece have received the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine.

Despite the fact that this vaccine is one of the two for cancer prevention, less than one in 10 boys aged 9 and older have had it. And this is despite the fact that since April 2022 it has been included in the National Vaccination Program and is therefore administered free of charge.

For the period from 02.08.2022 to the beginning of January 2023, 657,762 doses of the Comirnaty vaccine and 271,910 doses of the Spikevax vaccine expired. This was reported by the Acting Health Minister Asen Medzhidiev in response to a parliamentary question.

We know HPV vaccines are safe prevention against several types of cancer - will Balkan countries introduce them any time soon?

They say there are not enough vaccine in Germany

After a similar decision was made by Greece in recent days, all travelers who have been vaccinated with two doses of vaccines against Covid 19, regardless of whether the vaccines have been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), as of tomorrow will be able to cross the Croatian border.

A recent YouGov survey showed that up to a quarter of people say they would not accept a shot of a particular vaccine

President of Serbia thanked all health workers who fought against the coronavirus.
He pointed out that the state was forced to deny certain things to young people in order to save the lives of older fellow citizens.

Greece does not intend to make vaccination mandatory

Greece expects to receive 300 thousand Covid-19 vaccine doses in the first tranche which means that 150,000 people will be vaccinated initially (vaccines will require two doses per patient), government spokesman Stelios Petsas told Parapolitika radio on Wednesday.

Petsas said that the immunisation program will be launched in December or January.