La Jornada – HPV vaccination campaign begins in CDMX

Mexico City. Mexico City Health Secretary Oliva López Arellano spearheaded the launch of the National Human Papilloma Virus Vaccination Campaign and recovery of coverage, for which she announced the goal is to vaccinate 110,810 girls aged 13 and 14 years in 605 schools in the capital.

At the Francisco Zarco 116 secondary school, El Parque neighborhood, in Venustiano Carranza, he said that of this total, Mexico City’s health services will vaccinate 81,452 people.

The single-dose vaccine will be applied in public secondary schools for first and second grade girls, so the goal is for minors “to have easier access to the vaccine”.

“The HPV vaccine has been shown to prevent more than 90 percent of cancers associated with HPV infection when given at the recommended ages,” she said, adding that the biologic will be available for 13- and 14-year-old girls. they are not in schools, so they can go to any health center in the capital.

While for trans women aged 11 to 49 with HIV they will be able to access the vaccine in its three-dose version.

He recalled that due to the health emergency, a period in which lessons were held remotely, it was not possible to vaccinate minors in the fifth and sixth classes, so now “we are about to compensate for the delay”, with which doses Will apply to first and second year high school students only.

He specified that the times for minors to receive the vaccine are still optimal, after stating that the gap is around 120,000 girls, while the campaign will continue until the more than 110,000 vaccines available are exhausted.

Interviewed in the courtyard of the secondary school, she recalled that the health services are free, in addition to the fact that on this occasion women in a vulnerable situation will be able to access the vaccine, in addition to the fact that it is expected to reach private educational institutions, after insisting on the fact that vaccination for girls in public schools is a priority.

He recommended that parents vaccinate minors, as the effectiveness of organic has been proven.

At the beginning of the campaign, he invited minors to get informed.

He explained that the recommendation “is that the vaccine is applied at this age, prevents HPV infections, which are highly associated with the symptoms of cervical cancer over time because I have already pointed out that they are recurrent infections that produce inflammatory processes and that it is associated with cervical cancer”.

During her message, the secretary insisted to the girls, some of them accompanied by their mothers and guardians, that they inform themselves, take care of themselves and when they decide to exercise their sexuality, do so safely and freely, “and enjoy each of the stages of life without the disease becoming a limiting factor”.