Recall, currently the Ministry's HPV vaccination program under the National Cancer Strategy 2020-2030 covers children from age 11 to age 14, in a two-dose schedule. After the change, it will cover all children from the age of 9. Independently of this program, free drugs for children and adolescents up to age 18 are available by individual prescription, a bivalent vaccine and with 50% reimbursement of all for adults.
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- Any expansion of the program is eminently justifiable. Wider vaccination coverage means more people protected from infection. We should start this vaccination as early as possible, because infections can also be transmitted through routes other than sexual contact. An infected adult who has active lesions can transmit the virus to a child even through touch. I know of cases of HPV infection among preschool children as a result of one parent having active les...
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