The goal of this study is to compare the immune response of the single dose of the CERVAVAC vaccine with the single dose of Gardasil vaccine in girls/women aged 9 to 20 and boys aged 9 to 14 at 6 months, 12 months and 24 months post vaccination. The vaccine will be given randomly to the boys and girls/women in these age group and they will be followed up to check the immune status developed in them after vaccination. The status of immune response developed by the two differnet vaccines will be compared in these group of participants of the study.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
1,266
CERVAVAC-4 single dose vaccine
Gardasil-4 single dose
Chipata and Matero First Level Hospitals
Lusaka, Zambia
Geometric mean Titre (GMT) of IgG antibodies against HPV 16 and 18 assessed from blood samples collected at 24 months and measured by M9ELISA on Meso-scale Discovery (MSD®) platform
Time frame: 24 months
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