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HPV vaccination: Volunteer community mobilizers express satisfaction with response, commend UNICEF for capacity-building training 

By Akanji Alowolodu, Bauchi

A group of community volunteers engaged for the effective mobilization for the success of the ongoing HPV vaccination campaign in Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State have expressed satisfaction with the response of parents. 

Balkisu Hussein Lame who is a member of Mama2mama volunteer group in Toro LGA while speaking to Journalists on Sunday said that the exercise was going on smoothly and the turnout was encouraging. 

According to her, “We were trained by the UNICEF on how to go about mobilizing people particularly women parents for the exercise. We have been going from house to house to talk to parents about the HPV vaccination. There has been great responce from the people.”

She added that, “because have been engaged in previous exercises, this one was not a problem to us. We used what we were taught during the capacity building training and it has been a huge success.”

Balkisu who gave a vivid understanding of the negative effect of HPV, stressed the importance of taking the vaccine by girts aged 9 – 14 so that in future when they reach reproductive period, it will be easy for them. 

She then called on the concerned authorities to look into their remuneration considering the economic situation of the country stressing that going from house to house and community to community is not an easy thing. 

Also speaking, a Volunteer Community Mobilizer (VCM), Zainab Mohammed Bello said that the mobilization was not stressful as parents responded positively to the exercise. 

Zainab said that the various capacity building trainings they have received from UNICEF and other organisations came handy during the mobilization for the HPV vaccination campaign in Toro LGA. 

She added that all the mobilization technique they got were applied which made speaking to parents particularly women, easy to their understanding saying that the responce has been very tremendous. 

All other community mobilizers who spoke on the exercise commended the positive response of parents to the HPV vaccination exercise unlike in previous exercises expressing confidence that the target in the LGA will be met and even surpassed. 

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