Kyiv, April 26 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine can't provide preventive vaccination against cervical cancer yet, obstetrician and gynecologist Serhiy Baksheyev has said, recommending that Ukrainians vaccinate themselves.

"Could the state provide this vaccination? At the moment it can't," he said during the roundtable hosted by Interfax-Ukraine held in the frames of the European immunization week.

The doctor also added: "Today everybody could make prophylaxis of cervical cancer, each parent could vaccinate their children."

According to the gynecologist, the cost of one dose of vaccine is around UAH 1,000, and three inoculations are required per person.

Baksheyev said the vaccines against the human papilloma virus (HPV), which cause cervical cancer, had to be of good quality.

He also said that there is a possibility of introduction of the pilot projects of vaccination against HPV.

The deputy head of the healthcare department of Kharkiv City Council, Marharyta Holubova, in turn, said that from the beginning of 2012 Kharkiv launched a program of immunization of the population against the virus using city budget funds. According to her, 200 girls-teenagers from poor families have been vaccinated against the virus. There were no registered complications after the preventive vaccination, Holubova said.

Moreover, Baksheyev said that annually $38 million costs treatment of cervical cancer of first and second stages in Ukraine.

Besides, he said that there are more cases of this disease among younger females.

"While earlier we said that cervical cancer is a problem of women after 40 years old, today this problem concerns women from 35 years old," he said.