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About 90,000 teenage girls are expected to receive a jab to help prevent them developing cervical cancer. Sixty four million pounds is to be spent over the next three years on an immunisation programme to protect young girls from cervical cancer.
About 180,000 teenage girls are expected to receive a jab to help prevent them developing the disease.
The Human Papilloma Virus vaccine will be offered to all teenage girls under 18 from September.The Human Papilloma Virus vaccine will be offered to all teenage girls under 18 from September.
More details of the immunisation programme are expected to be announced by the public health minister later. There were 102 deaths from cervical cancer recorded in Scotland in 2004, with 282 new cases diagnosed.
Scotland's programme will start a year ahead of similar schemes in the rest of the UK and each dose is believed to cost about £250.Scotland's programme will start a year ahead of similar schemes in the rest of the UK and each dose is believed to cost about £250.
Girls will receive the immunisation at the age of 12 or 13, with a "catch-up" campaign being run to immunise girls aged between 13 and 17.Girls will receive the immunisation at the age of 12 or 13, with a "catch-up" campaign being run to immunise girls aged between 13 and 17.
'Moving swiftly''Moving swiftly'
Public Health Minister Shona Robison said the programme had "the potential to save hundreds of lives each year".Public Health Minister Shona Robison said the programme had "the potential to save hundreds of lives each year".
She added: "We are moving swiftly to ensure that as many girls as possible receive the vaccine and 90,000 will be immunised in the first year of the programme alone. Ms Robison said: "This is one of the biggest and most complex immunisation programme ever undertaken in Scotland.
"By starting the catch-up programme this year, a year ahead of the rest of the UK, we are ensuring that more girls at the upper end of the age spectrum will receive the vaccine as soon as possible." "But it has potential to deliver tremendous health benefits for future generations of young women, offering them protection against the virus responsible for almost three quarters of cervical cancers."
Ms Robison will provide details of the funding behind the programme and how the scheme will actually operate on Tuesday. The minister said this was why the government had accepted the recommendations of the Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation and were implementing the routine immunisation programme alongside a catch-up campaign for older girls.
"We're also acting quickly - a year ahead of the rest of the UK - to begin the catch-up process, ensuring that as many young women as possible receive the protection this vaccine can offer," she added.
Two particular strains of HPV, known as types 16 and 18, are responsible for about 70% of all cervical cancers.Two particular strains of HPV, known as types 16 and 18, are responsible for about 70% of all cervical cancers.
Despite the success of the Scottish cervical screening programme, the lifetime risk of a woman developing cervical cancer north of the border is 1 in 124. A total of 282 new cases of cervical cancer were diagnosed in Scotland in 2004.
There were also 102 deaths from cervical cancer recorded in 2004 in Scotland.