According to the World Health Organization, there are currently six licensed vaccines against human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes many cancers, including cervical cancer, as well as vaccines against hepatitis B (HBV), which causes liver cancer. Can become.
During the coronavirus pandemic, Russia developed its own Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 and sold it to several countries, though domestically it has had to contend with widespread public reluctance toward vaccination.
Putin himself said that he took Sputnik to assure people of its efficacy and safety.