Cover reporter Shao Meng
On May 30, the National Health and Health Commission held the fifth press conference of the “Everything for the People’s Health – Our Ten Years” series, introducing the party’s 18th Information about the progress and effectiveness of maternal and child health work since the beginning of the year. Wang Linhong, chairman of the Women’s Health Branch of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association and chief expert on chronic diseases of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said in answering a question from a cover reporter that the policy of free HPV vaccination will be promoted to cover more people, and at the same time, multi-departmental collaboration will be strengthened to solve the problem of HPV. The problem of insufficient vaccine supply can better meet the demand for vaccination.
Wang Linhong, chairman of the Women’s Health Branch of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association and chief expert on chronic diseases of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention . Source: China Network
Wang Linhong pointed out that HPV vaccine is an important primary preventive measure for cervical cancer prevention and control. There are now authoritative data that cervical cancer and precancerous lesions are associated with high-risk HPV infection. Therefore, HPV vaccination for school-age women is an important measure to effectively prevent HPV infection and reduce the occurrence of cervical cancer.
“At present, five HPV vaccines have been approved for registration in my country, including three imported HPV vaccines and two domestic vaccines. The data from the national routine vaccine report shows that from 2018 to 2020, the number of HPV vaccines is It has increased year by year, from 3.417 million in 2018 to 12.279 million doses in 2020.” Wang Linhong said.
But she also pointed out that on the whole, the current HPV vaccine is still in short supply. The number of school-age women in my country is relatively large, so the HPV vaccination rate is still at a relatively low level.
Wang Linhong said that in recent years, the country has been actively strengthening the scientific publicity of HPV vaccination and promoting the pilot work of HPV vaccine. In accordance with the work idea of overall advancement and key breakthroughs, the three provinces of Guangdong, Hainan and Fujian have been promoted to implement the work of free vaccination of school-age girls with domestic bivalent vaccines in the province, and this work has been included in the 2022 provincial party committee and government. s project.
Many other cities also use the platform of Healthy City to promote the pilot work of comprehensive cervical cancer prevention and control. For example, Jinan, Xiamen, Wuxi, Ordos and other pilot cities have introduced policies for free HPV vaccination for school-age girls , and Chengdu has given fixed subsidies for HPV vaccines to school-age girls to meet the different needs of service recipients for HPV vaccines.
“In a recent summary of data, we also saw that the coverage of HPV vaccination for girls in junior high schools in these pilot areas has been greatly improved, and in some cities it has reached more than 90%.” Wang Linhong said that the next step will be to Summarize the pilots of the first trial, promote the free HPV vaccination policy to cover more people, and at the same time increase the multi-departmental collaboration to solve the problem of insufficient HPV vaccine supply and better meet the vaccination needs.
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