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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jun 2017)
Billy Kelleher: 1250. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to instil public confidence in the national immunisation programme for HPV; his further plans to use mass media campaigns to encourage better take up of this vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27595/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jun 2017)
Billy Kelleher: 1251. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the extension of the national immunisation programme for HPV to boys in view of the fact that 39,000 men worldwide die of HPV related cancer each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27596/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jun 2017)
Billy Kelleher: 1252. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department is examining the positive impact a universal vaccination programme for HPV has had on countries such as the United States of America, Australia and Canada; if a health technology assessment on universal vaccination has been completed by HIQA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27597/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jun 2017)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1256. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to roll out the HPV vaccine to boys; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27602/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jun 2017)
Simon Harris: ...best practice. All relevant and appropriate information is taken into account when deciding to make changes to the State's immunisation programmes. NIAC has made a recommendation that the HPV vaccine should be given to boys. My Department asked the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) to carry out a health technology assessment (HTA). The Board of HIQA approved the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jun 2017)
Billy Kelleher: 1253. To ask the Minister for Health the availability of the HPV vaccine to girls that have previously declined or missed the administration of the vaccine in school as part of the national immunisation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27598/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jun 2017)
Simon Harris: Availability of the HPV vaccine to girls that have previously declined or missed the administration of the vaccine in school as part of the national immunisation programme is a service matter. I have referred this question to the Health Service Executive for a direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jun 2017)
Billy Kelleher: 1254. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to communicate the importance and effectiveness of the HPV vaccine to parents and separately to 12 year olds in order to increase the uptake of the national immunisation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27599/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jun 2017)
Simon Harris: Communication of the importance and effectiveness of the HPV vaccine to support the uptake of the national immunisation programme is a service matter. I have referred this question to the Health Service Executive for a direct reply to the Deputy.