Indonesia launches plan to vaccinate 2M girls against HPV and improve childhood cancer survival rates.

Indonesia has launched a new cancer control plan focusing on cervical and childhood cancers. The plan aims to vaccinate over two million girls against HPV by 2023, targeting 90% of fifth and sixth graders. It also seeks to meet the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer's goal of a 60% survival rate for common childhood cancers by 2030. Partners like St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and MD Anderson Cancer Center are assisting in these efforts.

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