Bulgaria is at one of the last levels of HPV vaccination
Bulgaria is at one of the last levels of vaccination against human papillomavirus. Three percent of 15-year-old girls have been vaccinated with HPV vaccine, according to data for 2020. This was said by Prof. Dr. Ivan Kostov, Executive Director of SBALAG “Mother’s Home” – Sofia at a discussion “Are you running a program for HPV prevention – connect cancers in Bulgaria? ”.
It could happen that the human papilloma virus causes about 5 percent of cancer cases in the world, all appeared Kostov. According to data, about 690,000 cases of HPV-registered cancer are diagnosed in men and women worldwide each year, and about 23 million cases of cervical precancerous lesions. According to Prof. Kostov, the main obstacles to increasing the vaccine coverage in routine immunization in our country are the problems with communication, misinformation, fake news, lack of political unity.
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Establishment of a national immunization program for the prevention of matte cervical cancer for boys and girls aged 10 to 14, inclusion in the mandatory vaccination calendar of free HPV vaccine and providing free screening programs for the more mature population in our country, offered by The National Network for Children, said Vanina Kirova from the organization, quoted by BTA. This is enshrined in a memorandum of the NNC, submitted in December last year to the Ministry of Health, this task is to create a national strategy to eliminate the human papilloma virus.
The prevention of diseases caused by HPV to become part of the national cancer plans of Bulgaria, want more from NM. It is important to maintain the national cancer registry, which is set as a commitment in the coalition agreement and should happen within six months, Vanina Kirova added. Kirova emphasizes the importance of prevention and prophylaxis. In most of the period of funding for children’s health in our country goes to hospital treatment, not prevention and pre-hospital care, analysis of financial investments, areas that manage children in health, education and social support in 2017-2020. ., made by the Institute of Market Economics by Vanina Kirova.
In 2020 and 2021, the state budget more than half of the funds allocated by the NHIF to be allocated for hospital care, medicines and medical devices for the next largest expenditure in the NHIF budget and transferred a quarter of the total budget, as in some years it reaches up to 30 percent, I say Kirova. Prof. Dr. Todor Kantardjiev, Counselor of the Sofia Important Municipality for Health Issues, pointed out that it is to reduce to a reasonable minimum of diseases caused by HPV by vaccinating girls and with maximum explanation of the benefits of vaccines, which he believes should is done by general practitioners. According to Kantardzhiev, the strength of the anti-vaccination movement in Bulgaria is modeled by NGOs that are fighting for vaccines not being mandatory.
Dr. Alexander Simidchiev, Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Health, said the importance of building a working technology platform in health, but what he said is really missing at the moment, with people to fill it with information. Currently, every structure in the Bulgarian healthcare system behaves like a feudal lord and does not share the information it has. The hospital’s individual security of information, the NHIF and it, and this is one of the reasons why this is not the case, Simidchiev said.
700 Bulgarian women die each year from cervical cancer, and 1,080 are diagnosed with protected. This data was presented …