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Start in September! Shantou school-age girls will receive the bivalent HPV vaccine free of charge

Free HPV vaccination for school-age girls is one of the 10 people's livelihood facts in Shantou in 2022. Recently, the Shantou Municipal Health Bureau formulated the "Shantou Municipal Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine Free Vaccination Work Plan for School-age Girls (2022-2024)", which will provide free domestic bivalent HPV vaccines for girls under the age of 14 who have a school registration in Shantou City, who have entered the first grade of junior high school from September 2022, have not been vaccinated against HPV vaccines, and are under the age of 14.

It is reported that Shantou City will carry out the full coverage of this project in counties and districts, and implement vaccination from September to November every year, and the recipients should know, agree and participate voluntarily. According to the principle of "territorial management", by the end of September, the junior high school will register the free HPV vaccination targets of the newly enrolled junior girls in that year. The first grade girls who failed to vaccinate in time due to special reasons in that year will be included in the vaccination list of the following year by the statistics of their schools, and two doses of vaccination will be completed before the age of 15. According to the requirements of the provincial plan, the domestic bivalent HPV vaccine is free of charge using a single source for this project.

According to the program goal, by 2030, 90% of girls under the age of 15 in the city will have completed the full immunization of HPV preventive vaccine. Among them, the target population forecast for 2022 is 45,111 people, and the vaccination rate should reach more than 60%, that is, more than 27,000 girls under the age of 14 will receive free HPV vaccine this year.

At present, Shantou City has set up a leading group for free papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for girls of appropriate age, and at the same time set up a "Shantou Human PapillomaVirus (HPV) Vaccine Free Vaccination Abnormal Reaction Investigation and Diagnosis Expert Group" to identify 59 eligible vaccination units, covering all districts and counties in the city, to ensure that the people's livelihood project is implemented.

Experts pointed out that cervical cancer in the female reproductive system malignant tumor incidence of the first, China's cervical cancer incidence rate of about 12.96 / 100,000, mortality rate of 2.60 / 100,000; the high incidence age of 40 to 60 years old, and there is a clear trend of rejuvenation, rural areas higher than urban. HPV, known as human papillomavirus, is a sexually transmitted pathogen that causes anal and genital diseases and oropharyngeal diseases in both men and women. Almost all cervical cancers are caused by persistent viral infections of high-risk HPV genotypes, so the first level of prevention of cervical cancer is HPV vaccination.

Experts said that from the existing cognition, HPV vaccine and new crown vaccine will not affect the immune effect, but the occurrence of suspected adverse reactions needs to be differentiated, it is recommended that the new crown vaccine and HPV vaccine should be at least 2 weeks apart.

[Reporter] Wang Hanqi

[Correspondent] Huang Jishan

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Start in September! Shantou school-age girls will receive the bivalent HPV vaccine free of charge

【Author】 Wang Hanqi

【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client

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