Huangpu to provide free HPV vaccines to school-age girls

Guangzhou's Huangpu district will begin offering free vaccinations against the human papillomavirus to school-age girls younger than 14 years old.

All local female students who have not yet been vaccinated can get the two-valent HPV vaccines with informed consent.

The two-valent HPV vaccine is designed to protect against Type 16 and Type 18 HPV, the two most common strains of the virus that can cause cervical cancer in women.

Huangpu will begin offering free vaccinations for HPV to girls younger than 14 years old from 2022 to 2024. [Photo/VCG]

Cervical cancer has the highest incidence rate of malignant tumor development in Chinese females and out of every 100,000 Chinese females, 12.96 have contracted the virus in China. The mortality rate is 2.6 per every 100,000 females in the country.

Guangdong province plans to add a budget of 600 million yuan ($94 million) to offer free HPV vaccinations from 2022 to 2024.

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