HPV jab: doctors call for teenage girls to be given more effective vaccine against sexual disease

increases the pressure on ministers to provide inoculation genital warts girls from age 12

Doctors are urging ministers to mount a sustained attack against the most common UK sexually transmitted infections through vaccination of 12 -. And 13 years of age, the school against genital warts

influential medical organizations want the vaccine has already been given to girls of this age to protect against cervical cancer, to be replaced by another which also protects against warts.

Specialists

public health have been lobbying the Department of Health (DOH) to move from the existing vaccine Cervarix hit a double purpose, called Gardasil. Genital warts, which affect 170,000 people each year.

A decision is expected in the coming weeks when the vaccine should be used in the next four-year program, from September 2012. Talks with rival pharmaceutical companies are almost over.

The school program to immunize against cervical cancer has been very successful since it began in 2008. Girls 12 and 13 who volunteer receive a series of three shots. Latest figures show that 77% of 12 Doh - for girls of 13 years, took the course, as 76% of youth aged 13 to 14, and 84% of 14 -. And 15 years,

Cervarix protects against strains 16 and 18

of human papillomavirus (HPV), believed to cause about 70% of cases of cancer of the cervix. Gardasil also does, but also reduces the risk of infection with strains of six and 11, linked to over 90% of cases of genital warts.

• The British Medical Association estimates that ministers must accept "the health benefits of high quality and cost effectiveness of Gardasil. We firmly believe that Gardasil, which is also effective against HPV 6 and 11, is now the vaccination against the best ", the presidents of its public health committees of Dermatology and Venereology have told the Department of Health. The UK should follow Australia, which saw a drop instantly huge and sustained in cases of genital warts in young women after introduction of Gardasil in 2008.
• Dr Colm O'Mahony
, chairman of the subcommittee Venereology of the EMA, said: "Besides the Netherlands, the UK is the only other developed country in the world, using Cervarix only in the national program. a great shame that the national immunization campaign effective and well organized missed a great opportunity to eradicate this very painful, very long, sexually transmitted infections common and costly. "

Dr Tony Falconer

, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, also supported a switch. "A good sexual health is a series of preventive measures such as better education, condoms, screening and vaccination program against HPV. We are in favor of a vaccine that provides additional protection. However, priority should be to save lives by preventing cancer, "he said.

Dr David Elliman

, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health spokesman vaccination, said: "If there was no difference in the price, Gardasil could be clinically best option, but the decision must take account of the shortage. of NHS resources. "

A recent survey by the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV found that 93% of specialists in the field suggest you choose friends on Gardasil Cervarix, while 61% of those children of school age daughters had already paid for them to have in private. "There is such a strong feeling among our members that the government has the wrong decision every time," said the group's president, Dr Keith Radcliffe.

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