2024-01-11 21:24:56
The vaccination campaign for middle school students in 5th grade once morest human papillomavirus, the cause of numerous cancers (cervical, ENT, etc.), began at the beginning of October.
The vaccination of 5th grade middle school students once morest the papillomavirus, launched in the fall, is far from expectations, with a “disappointing” first overview, officials of the French Society of Colposcopy and Cervico-Vaginal Pathology (SFCPCV) regretted on Thursday.
“We are starting to have the first figures, but not yet for the whole of France. It is estimated that around 10 to 15% of 5th grade middle school students have been vaccinated with a first dose – the second injection will be given before the end of June -“, said declared Professor Xavier Carcopino, president of the SFCPCV and head of the gynecological surgery department at the North Hospital of Marseille, during a press conference. “This first return is disappointing: we were hoping for around 30%, we are far from it. We can improve.”
While the objective was “fairly moderate”, “we would expect better”, said Geoffroy Canlorbe, general secretary of the SFCPCV.
A campaign started last October
In the Grand Est region, which nevertheless appeared as a “good student” following an experiment lasting several years, 7,486 5th grade students received a first injection, while the objective was 19,311, according to recent data from the Agency regional health system revealed by this practitioner to the AP-HP.
Some adolescents can also be vaccinated outside of college by general practitioners, pediatricians, or even pharmacists.
Promised at the start of 2023 by President Emmanuel Macron, the vaccination campaign for middle school students in 5th grade once morest human papillomavirus, the cause of numerous cancers (cervical, ENT, etc.), started at the beginning of October . All public colleges are concerned, with voluntary private establishments able to participate.
“Communicate more and better”
At least 30% of the 5th graders vaccinated at college, “I think we won’t be there”, admitted at the beginning of November to Aurélien Rousseau, then Minister of Health, while hoping for some 150,000 vaccinated at college at the end of school year (out of approximately 800,000 public and private secondary school students under contract).
“It’s a start, it will take tenacity,” he said, referring to heterogeneity between regions and between families as well as a need to “adapt the tools”.
For the SFCPCV, the campaign suffered, among other things, from an administrative organization that was “a bit heavy and complicated”.
“We also need to communicate more and better regarding the importance of vaccinating young adolescents with a safe and very effective vaccine” to “make cervical cancer a disease of the past in the future”, according to Professor Carcopino .
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