2023-09-16 10:00:00
“The campaign must make it possible to take a decisive step in the prevention of cancers”, explains the regional health agency (ARS) in concert with the Besançon rectorate in a press release. In the coming days, parents of 5th grade students will receive an information kit including a request for authorization to allow their children to benefit from free vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV). In Burgundy-Franche-Comté, they will also be invited to conferences hosted by the HPV collective. In total, more than 32,000 5th grade students from 342 public and private middle schools are affected in the region. In the eight departments of the region, vaccination centers are in the process of setting up mobile teams to intervene in establishments during school hours. The first dose will be administered to those who want it between October and December 2023, the second between April and June 2024.
According to the ARS, vaccination against HPV “ prevents up to 90% of infections, often non-symptomatic, but causing precancerous lesions and/or cancers of the cervix, vulva, vagina and anus. Today, the regional health agency considers that vaccination coverage is insufficient. In 2022, it stood at 51% among girls and less than 12% among boys. “Rates well below the 80% objective set out in the ten-year strategy to combat cancer by 2030.”
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