[Explanation] In response to the announcement of the World Health Organization's "Global Strategy to Accelerate the Elimination of Cervical Cancer" and the country's call, on March 12, the launching ceremony of the HPV vaccination project for school-age girls in Hainan Province was held at the Haikou Changliu Center Health Center, marking the province's HPV vaccination for school-age girls is in full swing.

　　[Explanation] Hainan Province will list the HPV vaccination project for school-age girls as a key private work in 2022, and 71,000 girls between the ages of 13 and 14 and a half will be vaccinated with two doses of HPV vaccine free of charge.

　　[Concurrent] Jia Guohua, head of the Maternal and Child Health Division of the Hainan Provincial Health Commission

　　Our target population (vaccination) this year is 71,000.

(The first dose) 71,000 (vaccine) have already arrived in Haikou, and the provincial capital will start to move immediately. Our goal is to complete the first dose in April, because this vaccine is two doses, and it will be vaccinated after half a year. Second stitch.

　　[Explanation] It is understood that cervical cancer is a high-incidence malignant tumor in women. It is recognized as the main "killer" that threatens women's health worldwide. It ranks fourth in the incidence and mortality of female cancer in the world. It is gradually increasing and getting younger.

Cervical cancer is caused by persistent infection of high-risk HPV virus, and it is the only cancer with definite etiology, preventable and controllable.

　　[Explanation] Wang Xiaoli, chief gynecologist at the Hainan Women and Children's Medical Center, introduced that the bivalent HPV vaccine vaccinated for school-age girls in Hainan Province this time can prevent the two most common HPV types and reduce the risk of disease.

　　[Concurrent] Wang Xiaoli, chief expert of gynecology at Hainan Women and Children's Medical Center

　　There are about 100,000 (female cervical cancer) new cases every year nationwide, and about 60,000 women lose their lives due to cervical cancer every year.

Then injecting the HPV vaccine at the age of 13 to 14 and a half years old can obtain a better immunogenicity, which means that their chances of developing cervical cancer in adulthood will be greatly reduced.

　　[Explanation] The reporter saw at the Haikou Changliu Center Health Center that day, after the vaccination work started, many parents brought school-age girls to get the vaccine.

　　【Concurrent】Parent Ms. Fu

　　I have been learning about it all the time. We also went online to check some related things, and at the same time asked some doctors. I think this (vaccine) is still very reliable, so I brought my child to vaccinate it.

　　【Concurrent】Parent Ms. Li

　　At present, the incidence of cervical cancer is still very high, which is what we as parents are very worried about. Through this (free vaccination), our burden as parents is also reduced.

　　[Explanation] Next, Hainan Province will promote the vaccination work in an orderly manner.

　　Reporter Lin Shijie reported from Haikou

Responsible editor: [Lu Yan]