Claim: The vaccine causes infertility. Rashid Mehmood Soomro, a Pakistani politician from the ultra-conservative Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazl) party in Sindh province, claimed that the HPV vaccine causes infertility. Speaking at a public event earlierthis month, he criticized the campaign as suspicious and harmful.

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DW Fact check: False Scientific evidence does not back this claim. A peer-reviewed U.S. study found no association between the HPV vaccination and infertility in women aged 18 to 33. Similarly, the World Health Organization’s Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety has concluded there is no evidence linking HPV vaccination to ovarian insufficiency.

Reviewed by Deutsche Welle ↗ · September 27, 2025