Burkina: About sixty journalists trained to promote the vaccine against the cervix

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The Burkinabè Coalition against Cancer (COBUCAN), in partnership with the Ministry of Health, on Thursday equipped around sixty men and women from the media, so that they could be relays in the communication for public support for vaccination against cervical cancer virus (CCU) in Burkina Faso.

“We have seen that the government and the hospitals are making great efforts; Nevertheless ; mortality linked to cervical cancer (CCU) is only increasing”, declared the president of the Burkinabè Coalition against cancer (COBUCAN), Nayi Zongo.

Mr. Zongo, also a teacher-researcher at Joseph Ki-Zerbo University, said that the best way to fight the CCU virus remains prevention, which involves vaccination of the population, specifically women and young people aged 9 to 14. years.

The President of the Burkinabè Coalition against Cancer (COBUCAN), Nayi Zongo

The president of COBUCAN spoke on Thursday in Ouagadougou, during a training workshop initiated by his structure for around sixty journalists. He urged them to be relays so that the population adheres to the vaccine against the CCU virus in Burkina.

Pr Zongo also explained that mortality linked to CCU has increased in the country and this is linked to the delay in diagnosis of cancer. In his opinion, to counter this delay, it is necessary to sensitize the Burkinabè and for that, the men and women of the media constitute an essential link to inform the population.

Nayi Zongo indicated that the health workers may have the scientific knowledge but it is the press that can only sensitize the population to have their wives and daughters vaccinated in health centers and hospitals.

The first official of COBUCAN said that women and young girls can also be screened for precancerous lesions free of charge in health facilities.

The Secretary General (SG) of the Ministry of Health, Dr Estelle Dabiré/Dembélé

“COBUCAN’s main objective is to raise awareness among the population, to make pleas so that cancer mortality, in general, decreases in Burkina Faso and particularly mortality linked to CCU”, he argued.

The Secretary General (SG) of the Ministry of Health, Dr Estelle Dabiré/Dembélé pointed out that cervical cancer is the most common type of cancer among women in Burkina Faso. Ms. Dabiré therefore invited journalists to be relays to curb this disease, through good communication in their various media.

The representative of the Minister in charge of Communication, Atéridar Galip Somé was delighted with the organization of the training by COBUCAN, for journalists on the sensitive issue of the CCU.

The representative of the Minister in charge of Communication, Atéridar Galip Somé

For Mr. Somé, many women and families are bereaved on a daily basis by the disease, which remains a major concern for the Burkinabè authorities. According to him, the CCU is not a fatality but rather a disease which one can avoid through the prevention which is the screening of the women and the young girls.

Atéridar Galip Somé also advised journalists to carefully follow the communications of experts in the field, in order to raise awareness in their written, radio and television productions.

Source: Burkina Information Agency

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