By Joy Omagha Idam
The CEO Chiniella Beauty, Miss Chineye Otabil, has pledged to work with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), State governments, and fellow Youth Influencers to create more awareness on Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination and promote the need for girls from ages 9- 14 to take the Vaccine on Cervical Cancer.

Addressing the Media in Lagos during the event organized by UNICEF, which had several Influencers in Attendance, Miss Otabil, declared that “Nigeria is among countries UNICEF is supplying the life – saving vaccine to arrest cervical cancer and protect the girl child. Vaccines are one of the most cost-effective interventions for HPV”.

She commended UNICEF, through Lu Wei Pearson, the Associate Director Health, Maternal and New Bornchild Health at UNICEF in New York, for all the global organization’s intervention in child care with special focus on cervical cancer. “Assuring her that we would do the needful as young influencers”.
“I’m volunteering to become an ambassador, an advocate of spreading this news to State Governments on the need to protect the girl child, (adolescents) as part of my service to humanity. As adolescent girls undergo hormonal changes and , become sexually active, they run the risk of being exposed . to people with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) or human immunodeficiency virus) (HIV).

Miss Otabil resolved to work with NGOs and fellow Youth Influencers to create more awareness geared towards increasing screening in women over 40 years when the risk is higher.