Catalonia incorporates in its calendar the vaccines against HPV in boys, herpes zoster and pneumococcus – – NIUS

Aina García NicolauBarcelona 09/08/2022 12:39 p.m. Archive image of a nurse giving a patient a vaccineEuropa PressCatalonia updates and extends its vaccination schedule. This has been communicated, this Thursday, from the Department of Health of the Generalitat in a press conference. One of the novelties is the incorporation of vaccines against human papilloma for boys, herpes zoster and pneumococcus. In the case of HPV, the Generalitat had already announced that for this school year 20022-2023, which began this week in Catalonia, children between 11 and 12 years old and who are in sixth grade would receive said vaccine. Vaccine against human papilloma: proven efficacyUntil now, this vaccine was only administered to girls aged 11 and 12 and to people with risk conditions. A change that has occurred due to the demonstrated efficacy of this vaccine. According to Health figures, vaccination in girls has reduced more than 60% of the incidence of anogenital warts in young people between 16 and 19 years old. Health summons the elderly to be vaccinated against HPA Likewise, it has also been agreed to incorporate the recombinant vaccine against Herpes Zoster into the systematic vaccination schedule for people between 65 and 80 years of age. “Great news” for Doctor Albert Selva that makes Catalonia one of the first communities to incorporate it. The decision has been made because “the benefit of this cost-effective vaccine far exceeds the cost it generates and that is one of the criteria for a vaccine to enter the vaccination calendar”, explains the Minister of Health, Josep Maria Argimon. Of these, 130,000 doses have been purchased for an amount of 17,000,000 euros. A vaccine that “will prevent a lot of pain and suffering in the elderly”, indicates the General Secretary of Health, Carmen Cabezas, because they can suffer a great decompensation and can trigger a series of phenomena that end with the patient in a residence or in a situation of dependency, New conjugate vaccine against pneumococcus The Department of Health has also reported that 80,000 doses of this new conjugate vaccine have been purchased for people over 65 years of age. which replaces the pneumococcal vaccine and which, in turn, can deal with 20 serotypes. Catalonia is the first Autonomous Community to include it in the calendar and has invested around 4,000,000 euros in them.