Somali girls having sex

Erweiterte Suche. Springer Medizin. Wichtige Hinweise. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Metrics details. Participation in Human Papillomavirus HPV vaccination and Papanicolaou Screening Pap smears is low among ethnic minorities in the Netherlands and hardly any information is available about the cervical cancer prevention methods of Somali women living in the diaspora. This qualitative study, based on the Health Belief Model HBM and an intersectionality-based framework, explores the perceptions of Somali women living in the Netherlands regarding measures to prevent cervical cancer. Two natural group discussions have been conducted with 12 and 14 Somali mothers aged 23—66 years.

What is this page? Participation in Human Papillomavirus HPV vaccination and Papanicolaou Screening Pap smears is low among ethnic minorities in the Netherlands and hardly any information is available about the cervical cancer prevention methods of Somali women living in the diaspora. This qualitative study, based on the Health Belief Model HBM and an intersectionality-based framework, explores the perceptions of Somali women living in the Netherlands regarding measures to prevent cervical cancer. Two natural group discussions have been conducted with 12 and 14 Somali mothers aged years.

Abma 1. Since , prevention of cervical cancer in the Netherlands consists of two measures: first, the Papanicolaou Screening Pap smear , for which all women aged 30 to 60 years receive an invitation every 5 years, is free of charge [1]. The second measure - the Human Papillomavirus HPV vaccination - was introduced in , after the bivalent vaccine Cervarix targeting HPV 16 and 18 became available [2]. Since there is a risk of contracting HPV from the first time of intercourse [3], the HPV vaccination program, which is managed by the Centre for Infectious Disease Control CIb and is only free of charge for year old girls [2], ensures that most girls can be vaccinated before they become sexually active [4]. Participation in HPV vaccination and Pap smears is particularly low among ethnic minorities in the Netherlands [1, 4], however, the morbidity of cervical cancer in the Netherlands is also low among ethnic minorities.