New progress has been made in the free vaccination of HPV vaccine for school-age girls. Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, Linyi County, Dezhou City, Shandong Province and other places have recently announced the promotion of this work.
According to the news of "Mianyang Daily" on February 19, the "Announcement of the Mianyang People's Congress" issued by the second meeting of the Eighth People's Congress of Mianyang City on February 18 pointed out that after the first session of the Eighth People's Congress of Mianyang City The second meeting voted to determine 8 municipal-level livelihood projects in 2022, the fifth of which is the "HPV vaccination subsidy project for school-age girls".
In addition, Linyi County, Dezhou City, Shandong Province also announced recently that 18,000 school-age girls in the county will receive the HPV vaccine for free.
According to the "Dezhou Evening News" report on February 18, on February 11, the Linyi County Health and Health Bureau and the County Education and Sports Bureau issued a plan, making it clear that from 2022, girls aged 9 to 14 will be vaccinated against HPV2 free of charge in the whole county. Vaccines protect women's health.
According to the report, this free vaccination project uses domestic 2-valent HPV vaccine in principle. School girls with a history of HPV vaccination.
According to statistics, there are currently about 18,000 school-age girls eligible for vaccination in the county, and the government will invest more than 14 million yuan.
"At present, the work has entered the preparatory stage, and it is expected that intensive vaccination will begin in April." The above report mentioned.
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. trend.
Cervical cancer is caused by persistent infection of high-risk HPV virus, and it is the only cancer with clear etiology, preventable and controllable.
HPV vaccination is one of the effective measures to prevent cervical cancer.
In its position paper on cervical cancer, the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed the importance of vaccination to prevent the disease; in the "Global Strategy to Accelerate the Elimination of Cervical Cancer", it also pointed out that there are three key measures to eliminate cervical cancer: vaccination, screening The goal of 90% of girls being vaccinated against HPV by the age of 15 is achieved by 2030.
In my country, since 2020, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, Jinan City, Shandong Province, Guangdong Province, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province and Lianyun District, Lianyungang City have successively carried out or announced that HPV will be carried out soon. Vaccination works for free.
Since the beginning of this year, many places have rapidly promoted free HPV vaccine vaccination for school-age girls. Many places including Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, Hainan Province, Chongqing City, and Fujian Province have recently announced that they will launch free HPV vaccine vaccination work. .