How is it that Rwanda, among the world's poorest countries - and still recovering from a brutal civil war - is able to protect its teenage girls against cancer more effectively than the G8 countries?
After just one year, Rwanda reported vaccinating more than 93 per cent of its adolescent girls against the human papillomavirus - by far the largest cause of cervical cancer. Vaccine coverage in the world's richest countries varies, but in some places it is less than 30 per cent.
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