Comprehensive Guide to HPV Vaccination for 5th Grade Students: Protecting Against Common STIs and Cancers

2023-09-18 08:44:00

This is one of the new features of this back to school. Last February, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, announced that he wanted to generalize vaccination once morest human papillomavirus (HPV) for all 5th grade students. A large-scale operation which will be carried out in all the region’s colleges and in particular in Corsican establishments from October.

“At the Corsican Academy, for several years, we have already been raising awareness among young people in 6th grade regarding this vaccine during nursing assessments carried out by school nurses. This gives parents who wish to vaccinate their child time to do so with their attending physician. indicates Dr Sylvie Ferrara, medical technical advisor to the rector of the Academy of Corsica, emphasizing the crucial issue of this vaccination. Viruses to which 80% of women and men will be exposed during their lives, HPV are in fact today the most common cause of sexually transmitted infections in that they can be transmitted by simple contact with the genitals. At the origin of various conditions, each year they cause more than 6,000 new cases of cancer, mainly of the cervix, but also of the ENT sphere, the anus, the vulva, the vagina and even the penis. . In addition, they can also lead to the appearance of anogenital warts, which are painful and recurrent, although benign. In order to protect once morest these pathologies, preventive vaccination has been recommended since 2006 from the age of 11. However, it remains non-obligatory, and vaccination coverage remains extremely low. Hence the launch of this major national campaign.

“When children arrive in 5th grade, they are at the age at which the vaccine must be given if this has not been done before, because it is in fact recommended to carry out this vaccine before any entry into a sexual life in order to avoid having already been contaminated by papillomaviruses »explains Dr. Ferrara, noting that countries where vaccination rates among adolescents are high have seen a drastic drop in the number of cervical cancers. “If we have already encountered papillomaviruses, vaccination can be taken up to the age of 19, or even up to the age of 26 for men who have sexual relations with men, but it will be less effective “, she adds.

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