It is about time. This could be good news. Worldwide elimination of HPV and subsequent cervical cancer is the next step after polio. The tools for prevention in the form of vaccination and treatment in the form of early treatment of cervical precancer are available.
What is the Myanmar goal? What percentage of girls will be vaccinated? Where? Where is this posted on the MoH&S website?
Jamie
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Females to get free HPV vaccine in 2019-2020
Eithinzar Kyaw
Eleven
Mon, 08/20/2018 - 11:22
Ministry of Health and Sports will give free vaccinations against cervical cancer, a disease caused by a sexually transmitted infection called Human Papillomavirus (HPV), to females aged between 9 and 14 starting from 2019-2020.
Dr. Htar Htar Lin from the Central Expanded Vaccination Program said: “Around the globe, females aged between 9 and 13 are vaccinated against HPV. The ministry has to make necessary preparations to put HPV vaccination in the regular vaccination program over the years. We have to designate the age range for the vaccination suitable for our country. The ministry has prepared to give vaccination against diarrhea and HPV before 2020. The Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has funded over US$ 32 million for the expanded program on immunization.”
In Myanmar, most women aged between 50 and 59 suffered from HPV, according to the health research paper jointly conducted by the Medical Research Department, the Central Women’s Hospital and the Yangon East Hospital in 2016.
In 2016, a survey was conducted on 106 HPV-confirmed women aged between 20 and 79 from the Central Women’s Hospital and Yangon East Hospital.
According to heath surveys conducted at Yangon People’s Hospital, the Central Women’s Hospital and hospitals in other regions and state in 2014, more than 500,000 women contract HPV cancer every year. More than half of HPV cancer patients died from their condition.
Most common cancers suffered by Myanmar women are breast, HPV, stomach, lung, colon, liver and esophageal cancers. The highest cancer death rates are lung, stomach, breast, HPV, liver, esophagus and colon.
In the developed countries, females aged between nine and 13 are given HPV vaccine and females aged between 20 and 60 get medical examination every three years.
According to the surveys, 97 women (91.5 per cent) don’t get medical checkup for HPV cancer. The outbreaks of HPV cancer in the age group (50-59) is 34.9 per cent, the age group (40-49), 26.4 per cent, the age group (60-69), 20.8 per cent, the age group (30-49), 8.5 per cent, the age group (70-79), 7.5 per cent and the age group (20-29), 1.9 per cent.
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