Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Zhang Hua
On October 26, the reporter learned from the Guangdong Provincial Department of Finance that the provincial finance plan will add about 600 million yuan for free HPV vaccination in 2022-2024, and in accordance with the principle of informed and voluntary, from 2022, girls under the age of 14 who have a Guangdong school registration, have entered the first grade of junior high school since September and have not been vaccinated with HPV vaccine will be vaccinated free of charge.
HPV vaccination protects adolescent women from cervical cancer
According to reports, this is Guangdong's positive response to the World Health Organization's "Global Strategy for Accelerating the Elimination of Cervical Cancer" proposed to "complete the full immunization of HPV preventive vaccines in 90% of girls under the age of 15", and cooperate with the business authorities to formulate work plans to further improve and optimize the supporting policies for fertility, ensure women's health, and reduce the incidence of cervical cancer in women in Guangdong Province.
In fact, for the state to encourage qualified provinces to include HPV vaccine in the scope of free vaccination, Guangdong has been striving to become the first batch of pilot provinces, and has been conducting extensive research and program drafting in the first half of this year.
Professor Li Xiaomao of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, a well-known cervical cancer prevention and treatment expert in Guangdong and the first chairman of the Cervical Cancer Prevention and Control Professional Committee of the Guangdong Preventive Medicine Association, the first single-disease special committee in China, said in an interview with reporters that a study in China that included 120772 sample of 15-60-year-old women in 37 cities found that the high-risk HPV infection rate of adolescents aged 15-19 was as high as 31%.
That said, protecting adolescent girls from HPV infection is the first key measure to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer in the future.
The vaccination rate of 9-14 years old in China is less than 1%, and free vaccination is of great significance
HPV vaccination as a first-level preventive measure for cervical cancer, more and more people accept, from the first HPV vaccine on the market, the world has been sold and used more than 500 million, safety, efficacy in real-world research has been verified.
It is reported that more than 200 HPV types have been identified, and HPV16 and HPV18 are the HPV types with the largest number of cancers in the world. In China, about 84.5% of cervical cancers are caused by these two types. The bivalent, quadrivalent and nine-valent HPV vaccines currently on the market contain HPV16 and HPV18 types, and the preventive effect of several vaccines in this regard is the same.
It is understood that since the domestic listing of HPV vaccines, a total of 34.8907 million batches have been issued, corresponding to 11.63 million people, with a vaccination rate of 3.2% (380 million people aged 9-45 years old), low vaccination awareness, and less than 1% of the vaccination rate of 9-14 years old.
Li Xiaomao said that HPV is mainly transmitted through sexual behavior, and there is a risk of contracting HPV after sex, so receiving HPV vaccine before the first sexual activity will be able to block HPV infection to a greater extent and benefit the most, so it is recommended that girls of appropriate age be vaccinated as soon as possible.
An additional 600 million yuan was added to promote free HPV vaccination for school-age girls
In recent years, Guangdong has vigorously done a good job in the comprehensive prevention and control of birth defects, free HPV vaccination for school-age girls and other practical financial guarantees for people's livelihood, and the quality of eugenics and eugenic services in the province has been significantly improved. The provincial finance plan will add about 600 million yuan to the free HPV vaccine in 2022-2024.
At the same time, the province has built a health barrier for disease prevention and control, actively promoted the construction of vaccine cold chain distribution and vaccination standardization, and from 2019 to 2020, the provincial finance subsidy of 430 million yuan supported the construction and transformation of 90 municipal and county-level CDC vaccine cold chain storage and distribution facilities, equipped 1429 vaccination clinics with intelligent medical refrigerators and digital outpatient equipment, and the vaccination rate of children in various national immunization programs in the province reached more than 98%.
Guangdong actively responded to the "Complete full immunization of HPV preventive vaccine in 90% of girls under 15 years old" proposed in the World Health Organization's "Global Strategy for Accelerating the Elimination of Cervical Cancer" to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer in women in the province.
It is reported that the province will vigorously promote the free HPV vaccination of school-age girls, and then, Guangdong plans to implement free vaccination for girls under the age of 14 who have a Guangdong provincial school registration and have entered the first grade of junior high school since September and have not been vaccinated with HPV vaccine in accordance with the principle of informed and voluntary. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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