Health
School vaccination drive expands to 40 more districts
The autumn campaign covers measles-rubella and HPV in selected age groups, with a consent form that schools must actually send home.
Fatima Noor
Health & policy, Lahore
21 August 2026 at 3:30 am · 5 min read
An autumn school vaccination campaign will expand to 40 additional districts, covering measles-rubella for younger children and HPV for a defined adolescent group. Provincial education departments have been told that a consent form must go home — not sit in a staff-room drawer.
Parents can opt out in writing. Officials said last year’s confusion came from schools that treated silence as consent. That rule has been reversed.
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