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    "id": 962576,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui CWR, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Irene Kasalu",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13251,
        "legal_name": "Irene Muthoni Kasalu",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Motion also seeks to have our girls and boys vaccinated. Vaccination helps lower cancer risks and prevents many cancers including cervical cancer. As a nation, we need to come up with ways of preventing cancer and not just wait to be tested and go for treatment, but even advocate for healthy choices. We have heard from medical researchers and many bodies that are mandated with research of cancer. If you live a healthy life and make healthy choices such as having healthy weight or keeping the recommended weight for your body, avoiding tobacco, limiting alcohol amounts and protecting your skin, you minimise chances of contracting cancer. Many colleagues have said here also that through research, we should avoid multiple sexual partners. We need to adhere to this. We also need to have this taught to our pupils in schools. My 10-year-old son is already aware that there is a disease called HIV and how it is spread. So, we need to as well advocate for civic education so that we can take cancer seriously as we have taken with the education on HIV/AIDS. Our children understand about cancer and how you can get it, prevent it or how to have early detection. We are aware that this detection is not easily available to everybody. That is why we thank the Hon. Member for coming up with this Motion because it seeks to have this detection, vaccination for our boys and girls. I also call upon the Member to include all the types of cancer. Everybody should be included in this Motion because it is very important. It touches on everybody and not just our boys and girls."
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