Table 1 Accountabilities of departments involved in the free HPV vaccination for eligible girls in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Department | Accountability |
|---|---|
Municipal/District Health Commission | Leading programme implementation Conducting programme monitoring and evaluation |
Municipal/District Education Bureau | Registration of eligible girls and development of vaccination plans Collaboratively with Municipal/District Health Commission, conducting programme monitoring and evaluation |
Schools | Data collection of eligible girls Organising inner-school health education and mobilising students, parents, and teachers Collaboratively with vaccination clinics, arranging eligible girls to receive the HPV vaccine |
Municipal/District Department of Finance | Guaranteeing the vaccine procurement cost, vaccination service fee, health promotion and related project funds |
Municipal Women’s Federation | Community and family health promotion |
Municipal/District Maternity & Child Healthcare Hospital | Health education on cervical cancer prevention Programme management and evaluation |
Municipal/District Center for Disease Control and Prevention | Collecting and assessing vaccine procurement plans, signing procurement contracts Distributing the vaccine Providing technical guidance for vaccination Monitoring and addressing suspected abnormal reactions to vaccination Managing programme data through the Shenzhen Vaccination Information System |
Vaccination clinics | Managing vaccine use, vaccination registration, reporting data to district Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health education and communication |