Is it necessary for girls to be vaccinated against human papillomavirus?

Experts said: Young girls vaccinated with HPV vaccine are easy to stimulate better immune response, and women who have never had sex will get the best preventive effect.

André Carvalho, a senior scientist at the International Agency for Research on Cancer of the World Health Organization, delivered a speech on "Global Strategy for Accelerating the Elimination of Cervical Cancer" at a global health summit held by the 2022 Pujiang Innovation Forum on August 28th, and optimistically predicted that China could completely eliminate cervical cancer from 2046 to 2050 after implementing correct prevention and control strategies. Carvalho said that the incidence of cervical cancer in the world is relatively high, and the overall incidence of cervical cancer in China is not very high, but due to the large population in China, it accounts for 18% of the global incidence of cervical cancer and 17% of all deaths. According to WHO data, the incidence of cervical cancer in China is 654.38+10,000 people 1 1.

According to the recommendation of the World Health Organization, girls aged 9 to 14 should be the primary vaccination population, and the earlier the vaccination, the better the effect.

Early cervical cancer usually has no obvious symptoms and signs, so it is very important to conduct regular standardized cervical cancer screening. Compared with the types of HPV vaccine, citizens should pay more attention to the vaccination age of HPV vaccine, and strongly recommend that school-age women, especially women aged 9- 15, can maximize the benefits of HPV vaccine before their first sexual intercourse.

At present, there are domestic, imported bivalent, imported tetravalent and imported nine-valent vaccines listed in China, among which tetravalent and nine-valent vaccines are in short supply. All the human papillomavirus vaccines that have been marketed have a very good preventive effect on cervical cancer, which can prevent more than 90% of cervical cancer.