Table 1 Suggested additions to an adolescent HPV vaccine-based package of care (“Adolescent Plus Package”) [[18]]
From: Using HPV vaccination for promotion of an adolescent package of care: opportunity and perspectives
Intervention category | Definition | Menu of complimentary interventions |
|---|---|---|
•Screening | •Testing or screening for illnesses, diseases or disabilities | •Vision screening |
•Schistosomiasis screening (in appropriate contexts) | ||
•Anaemia screening | ||
•Provision of information | •Providing information-based interventions, including information sessions, skills delivery, pamphlets | •HPV information |
•Reproductive and sexual health information booster | ||
•Nutritional information | ||
•Tobacco and alcohol prevention information | ||
•Services | •Providing referrals, counseling, treatments | •Voucher referral for health services (including reproductive health) |
•Referral for vision | ||
•Referral for iron/folate supplementation | ||
•Commodity delivery | •Supplementation, direct provision of commodities or increasing access to commodities | •Anti-helminthic (soil-transmitted) |
•Anti-helminthic (schistosomiasis) | ||
•Vitamin A | ||
•Bednets for malaria prevention | ||
•Vaccines | •Vaccines identified to complement HPV vaccine delivery should already be delivered (primary or booster) to this age group | •Tetanus/Diptheria booster |
•Hepatitis B | ||
•Meningococcus | ||
•Typhoid | ||
•Rubella |