Progress in the sciences of Health for the benefit of humanity it has made great strides in recent years; This situation gave rise to existence today vaccines which already protect from some sort of cancer. This is the case with the hepatitis B vaccine and the vaccine against human papilloma virus (HPV).
In case of cancer cervix, which represents the 2nd cancer more deadly in women, after breast cancer, in recent decades it has been clinically and epidemiologically proven that vaccinate girls and, if possible, boys against the HPVreduces the incidence of cervical cancer.
It is worth noting that the fact that a woman has cancer cervicouterine is very expensive; that is, the treatment for this type of cancer It costs around 3 million pesos per patient. To this must be added the poor productivity of patients due to not working and the costs of the family to care for or assist them.
Instead, vaccinate to girls costs from $ 300 to $ 450 per girl; that is, how much it costs to treat a patient cancercan be paid vaccines enough for about 500 girls. With minors vaccinated against HPV reduction of cervical tumors can be demonstrated between girls What they were vaccinated; this is the case in Scotland, where vaccination campaigns have focused on girls as young as 12 or 13.
The graph below clearly shows how there is a decrease in prevalence, even among girls not vaccinated. This situation may be due to a herd effect, i.e. avoiding the infection Thanks to vaccine of the others girls.
However, and unfortunately, in Mexico, the Fourth Transformation, with a short-term vision, has decided not to buy the vaccines (and “save” money, following the austerity narrative) while rethinking the Sanitary system which for decades has been dismantled by governments themselves [y de inmunizaciones].
Otherwise, the percentage of vaccinated girls against the HPV It would be much bigger than it is now.
In another case, if there had been a shortage of vaccines around the world, as reported by some federal government officials, Mexico would not be the last in Latin America to get vaccinated HPVwith a coverage of 0.5%.
This is how during the current six-year period, WHO data warns that countries like Guatemala, Colombia and Chile have increased vaccination from childrenOn the contrary, Mexico and Brazil show declines.
The drop in coverage vaccination It differs depending on the biological, but undoubtedly the biggest collapse was in the case of the BCG vaccine, which is given to children to protect them from tuberculosis.
According to the data of the Health Secretary the spectacular system crash vaccination It is reported in the following numbers: in 2020 it is indicated that 72 thousand 016 doses were applied, 95% less than those administered in 2018, which were 1 million 387 thousand 388 doses, and 92% less than in 2019, when they were applied 930 thousand 482.
In turn, WHO pointed out that BCG coverage in Mexico dropped to 28% in 2020, while in 2019 it was 76% and in 2018 it was 96%, which shows that vaccines with less coverage Mexico are some of those that are applied in the first months of life of girls and boys, such as the one applied against hepatitis B to newborns, which had a coverage of 42% in 2020, the same as that of conjugated pneumococcus, with 49% , and rotavirus, with 46%.
It should be noted that the application of art vaccine against him human papilloma virus It has also dropped in this six-year period, from 1 million 273 thousand 575 doses in 2018, to only 259 thousand 347 doses in 2020, according to data from the Health Secretary.
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