2023-10-02 11:56:35
6000 cancers per year in France. This is the sad toll of papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted infection. Since the end of the 1980s, the link has been established between these viruses and certain cancers. At that time, prevention and screening exclusively targeted women.
A first vaccine will be put on the market in 2006. And once more, it only concerns young girls. Even when television asks the French what they think, it is still women who are interviewed.
Twelve years following the vaccine was put on the market, a question emerges: should only women be vaccinated? However, a third of men carry a papillomavirus. With the risk of developing cancers, particularly of the throat, penis or anus, but also of transmitting the virus to their partner.
Since 2019, vaccination of boys once morest papillomavirus has been recommended by the High Authority of Health. But in 2021, only 6% of boys were vaccinated, compared to 45% of girls.
Today, France is still the country in Europe with the lowest vaccination coverage once morest papillomavirus.
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