Watch: Michelle Muscat Shocked By MCAST Students’ Lack Of Sexual Health Awareness
Michelle Muscat has expressed her shock upon discovering that several teenage girls don’t know what an HPV vaccine is.
Muscat, chairperson of the Marigold Foundation and wife of former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, appeared on the TVM morning show Għaddi S’Hawn to discuss the Foundation’s Pink October awareness campaign.
“I have just come from the MCAST Freshers’ Week and was surprised at how much young people don’t know,” she told the show’s host Antonella Vassallo.
“I was speaking with six young girls and asked them whether they have taken a cervical vaccine and they asked me what I was talking about.”
“We’re talking about 17-year-old girls who should have taken this vaccine when they were 13 to protect themselves from HPVs that they could contract when they start their sexual lives and which could lead to cervical cancer. This is a cancer that can be prevented.”
The Marigold Foundation was launched by BOV and Michelle Muscat in 2014, a year after her husband became Prime Minister, to support philanthropic causes.
Every October and November, the Foundation launches Pink October-Movember, a nationwide campaign to raise awareness on female cancers and men’s health, particularly with regards to prostate cancer and testicular cancer.
Muscat’s husband, Joseph Muscat, won two elections by historic margins but resigned as Malta’s Prime Minister in early 2020 in the wake of Yorgen Fenech’s arrest for the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Earlier this year, he become chairperson of the Malta Premier League.
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