2023-10-05 17:40:42
“I’m a little stressed“, we hear on the benches of the classroom transformed into a vaccinodrome this Thursday at the Chopin college in Nancy. 33 students out of the 116 5th graders of the establishment are summoned to receive a vaccine against the papillomavirus, as part of the major national campaign which has just begun. ARS Grand Est is targeting a vaccination rate of 30%.
On pedagogy
To reassure adolescents’ fears, it all starts with a SVT course on the effect of the vaccine. “Your vaccine will attack the virus in your body, so you will have less of it and you will have less virus to transmit“, explains the teacher. A lesson well learned by Pauline, who has just come out of the injection. “It will help protect us against cancers linked to the papillomavirus“, she repeats.
The age to do it
And indeed, in 5th grade, it is the best age to go through the vaccination box. “It is around 11-12 years of age that the vaccine is most effective. It is so much that we can afford to only do two doses, whereas we need 3 after 15 years.“, explains Professor Thierry May, former head of the infectious diseases department at Brabois, who came out of retirement for the occasion. There will also be a reminder to be carried out in 6 monthsin spring.
Here, a little less than 30% of students participate, but many have already had this vaccine. This is not a surprise according to Joan Orcier, director of the ARS in Meurthe-et-Moselle. “It’s a double campaign: one at the college and the other among treating doctors and nurses.“, he explains. And once finished: “they are quiet until 25 years old“, sourit Thierry May.
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