Venezuela broke its HPV vaccine promises, and there's barely any sex ed. Experts say it's a problem
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A community health worker teaches a group of women and teenage girls about contraception methods, at a Doctors Without Borders medical clinic, in Putucual, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. The health worker also asked what they knew about HPV. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)Patients' shadows are cast on a wall at a Doctors Without Borders medical clinic in Putucual, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. A group of women and teenage girls visited the medical clinic in eastern Venezuela for free contraceptives where a community health worker taught them how to use an IUD, condoms and birth control pills correctly and about HPV infections. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix).Patients wait their turn to enter a Doctors without Borders medical clinic in Putucual, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. The women and teenage girls came to the medical clinic in eastern Venezuela for free contraceptives where a community health worker taught them how to use an IUD, condoms and birth control pills correctly and about HPV infections. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)A patient receives a birth control implant at a Doctors without Borders medical clinic in Putucual, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. A group of women and teenage girls visited the medical clinic in eastern Venezuela where a community health worker taught them how to use an IUD, condoms and birth control pills correctly and about HPV infections. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)A community health worker teaches a group of women and teenage girls about contraception methods, at a Doctors Without Borders medical clinic, in Putucual, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. The health worker also asked them what they knew about HPV. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)A patient looks at a birth control injection at a Doctors without Borders medical clinic in Putucual, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. A group of women and teenage girls visited the medical clinic in eastern Venezuela where a community health worker taught them how to use an IUD, condoms and birth control pills correctly and about HPV infections. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)A patient leaves with a box of complimentary condoms after visiting the Doctors Without Borders medical clinic in Putucual, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. While there she attended a discussion led by a community health worker who taught women and teenage girls how to use an IUD, condoms and birth control pills correctly and about HPV infections. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
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A community health worker teaches a group of women and teenage girls about contraception methods, at a Doctors Without Borders medical clinic, in Putucual, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. The health worker also asked what they knew about HPV. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)