A total of 220 12-year-olds from Huelva It has been vaccinated from January 1 against papillomavirus (HPV). This is 7.9% of young people who should receive this vaccine throughout 2023, after its inclusion in the Andalusian calendar by the Ministry of Health and Consumption aimed at males who turn 12, starting with the cohort of those born in 2011.
According to the Delegation of Healthin relation to the female population, 221 girls of this same age (8.4% of the total) have been vaccinated in the province of Huelva in these first months of 2023. Coverage for Huelva women between the ages of 13 and 18 already reaches 89.7%.
Thus, coinciding with the recent celebration of the World HPV Awareness Day, the Ministry of Health and Consumption has reminded the population of the “importance” of the vaccine against this disease. And it is estimated that each year there are more than 500,000 new cases of cervical cancer in the world and around 280,000 deaths.
Figures that in Spain and Andalusia are much lower thanks to existing prevention programs: papilloma vaccination and cervical cancer screening. In the national group there are 7.6 cases of this type of cancer per 100,000 women and 7.9 per 100,000 women in Andalusia.
Expansion of the vaccination calendar
The Board has incorporated the vaccine against papilloma to the immunization schedule of men with the aim of preventing the diseases that this virus also produces in them. Thus, the more than 45,000 boys residing in Andalusia who were born in 2011 they can be vaccinated just like girls already dowhich represents a saving for Andalusian families of 345 euros for each vaccinated child.
The administration of this vaccine is free for people in risk groups such as: women and men with HIV infection up to 26 years of age; women who have suffered a conization of the cervix for a precancerous lesion of any age; women with bone marrow or solid organ transplants up to the age of 26, and men up to the age of 26 who have intercourse with each other.
This new addition to the vaccination calendar was added to those already included in recent years. Specifically, since 2020, the ACWY meningitis vaccine at 12 months and in adolescents from 12 to 21 years old, that of meningitis B in infants and that of influenza in children from six months to four years and eleven months for the current 2022-23 campaign. Additional information on this and other vaccinations can be found on the Andavac website:
