| Cumbernauld and Kilsyth schoolgirls are among the first in the UK to be vaccinated against cervical cancer.
Schools in the Lanarkshire area will this week begin vaccinating 12 and 13 year old girls against HPV, the virus which causes cervical cancer.
Over the coming months, all girls in classes S1 to S6 will be offered the vaccine, so that every secondary schoolgirl under the age of 18 will have had it by August 2009.
Local Labour MSP Cathie Craigie said:
"Despite a successful cervical screening programme, over 100 women a year in Scotland still contract cervical cancer."
"I hope this programme, initiated and developed by the last Labour Executive, will save the lives of many more young women."
|
Accessibility 
