2024-01-11 17:22:25
“We are starting to have the first figures, but not yet for all of France. It is estimated that around 10 to 15% of 5th grade middle school students were vaccinated with a first dose – the second injection will be given before the end of June -“, declared Professor Xavier Carcopino, president of the SFCPCV and head of the gynecological surgery department. at the North hospital in 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.
Reluctance
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 regional health agency revealed by this practitioner to the AP-HP.
Promised at the start of 2023 by President Emmanuel Macron, the vaccination campaign for middle school students in 5th grade once morest human papillomaviruses, the cause of numerous cancers (cervical, ENT, etc.), started from the beginning october. All public colleges are concerned, with voluntary private establishments able to participate.
At least 30% of 5th grade vaccinated at college, “I think we won’t be there,” Aurélien Rousseau, then Minister of Health, admitted at the beginning of November, while hoping for some 150,000 vaccinated at college at the end of the year. school (out of approximately 800,000 public and private secondary school students under contract).
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