Cover reporter Zhou Hongpan
On May 19, the five departments of Sichuan Mianyang Municipal Health Commission, Municipal Education and Sports Bureau, Municipal Finance Bureau, Municipal Medical Security Bureau, and Municipal Market Supervision Administration jointly issued a document , In the city of Mianyang, the HPV vaccination subsidy project for school-age girls was launched. In the plan, the local government will invest 30 million yuan every year, and subsidize 600 yuan per person for the HPV vaccine for girls aged 13 to 14.
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Cervical cancer is one of the most common female malignancies, mainly caused by persistent HPV infection. “The incidence of cervical cancer in my country is increasing year by year, and it is getting younger and younger.” Pan Changqing, director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of Mianyang Central Hospital, said that the first peak of HPV infection in Chinese women is likely to appear at the age of 15-24. For the protection of young women, 13-14-year-old female students in school as the key target group for HPV vaccination can greatly increase the HPV vaccination rate of adolescent women.
According to Pan Changqing, HPV is divided into high-risk and low-risk types according to carcinogenicity. Almost all cervical cancers are related to high-risk HPV infection. The bivalent HPV vaccine targets high-risk HPV 16 and 18, and the quadrivalent HPV vaccine covers two additional low-risk HPV types 6 and 11.
Mianyang City has identified the HPV vaccination subsidy project for school-age girls as the 2022 municipal-level people’s livelihood practical people’s congress voting project. The Mianyang Municipal Health Commission, the Municipal Education and Sports Bureau, the Municipal Finance Bureau, the Municipal Medical Security Bureau, and the Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau jointly issued the “Mianyang City School-age Girls HPV Vaccination Subsidy Project Implementation Plan” to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer increase HPV vaccination coverage.
The plan proposes to implement HPV vaccination in accordance with the principle of “informed consent and voluntary vaccination”. days), and school-age girls without any HPV vaccination history were the target population. Vaccines should use the domestic bivalent HPV vaccine in principle according to the scope of HPV vaccination, and can also choose imported bivalent and imported quadrivalent HPV vaccines. Financial funds provide a fixed subsidy of 600 yuan per person for the target population to receive HPV vaccine (two doses, each dose of 300 yuan, three doses, 200 yuan per dose). The difference in the vaccine fee and the vaccination service fee (20 yuan/dose) after the subsidy shall be borne by the parents (guardians) of the recipients.
According to the statistics of the Mianyang Municipal Education and Sports Bureau, in 2022, there will be more than 50,000 school-age girls eligible for vaccination in 9 counties (cities, districts) and 4 parks (including Science City) in the city. The Mianyang Municipal Government has decided to invest more than 30 million yuan in financial funds every year for the HPV vaccination of school-age girls in the city to ensure that the project is popularized to every target group.
It is reported that Mianyang is the first prefecture-level city in western China to carry out the HPV vaccination subsidy project for school-age girls. The implementation of this project will continuously enhance the national happiness and health index and escort the health of the people in the city.
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