In college, vaccination numbers are disappointing

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Updated 12/12/23 at 3:54 p.m.

Only one in ten fifth-grade students targeted for the vaccination campaign has received the first injection of the two necessary doses. Tendency to take into account: The data does not take into account teens who have been vaccinated by their local doctor

Don’t take off. Of the 632,000 fifth-graders in public middle schools, only 61,400 have been vaccinated against the virus. Papilloma virus Since the beginning of the school year, according to information from France Interwhich received the first numbers from regional health agencies.

While a vaccination campaign has been underway in 7,000 colleges since the fall, the government has set a vaccination target of 30%. The results are not equal: only one in ten students received the first dose of the vaccine, of the two needed for full protection.

Catholic education wants ‘better’ supervision of vaccination

180,000 university students in the private sector were not invited to participate in the campaign due to refusal Catholic teaching. But be careful: these numbers do not take into account the vaccination that city doctors administer to teenagers. Each year, about 6,400 new cases of cancer are caused by HPV.

The vaccine provides protection against nine types of papillomavirus. The vaccine has been recommended for about fifteen years among teenage girls ages 11 to 14, and was opened in 2021 to boys of the same age. The second dose of the vaccine will be delivered during the third trimester of pregnancy.

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