Test of uterine cancer vaccine in Vietnam

Vietnam's Ministry of Health is willing to grant licenses to pharmaceutical companies that intend to import cancer vaccines into Vietnam. The beginning of this "campaign" is the uterine cancer vaccine.

Vaccine Research Laboratory (Photo: VNN)

On May 3, Dr. Nguyen Van Binh, Deputy Director of the Department of Preventive Medicine (Ministry of Health) said: The US PATH organization in Vietnam has written a request to the Ministry of Health to permit the implementation of a pilot project. points on testing for vaccination with Human Papillomavirus-HPV (preventing cervical cancer) for about 9,000 teenagers who are women aged 14-15.

According to information given by the organization, HPV is a very common infection (more than 50% of adults are infected with this virus). 99.7% of cervical cancers are related to HPV; progress from HPV infection to cervical cancer about 20-30 years.

Apart from Merck & Co.and GlaxoSmithKline, the production of HPV has been researched and tested by another major US pharmaceutical company. Tests on female patients aged 15-26 have been performed by these two companies in different countries, such as in the US, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Philippines, Finland . Results The tests were very positive. Therefore, PATH organizes the promotion to be tested in Vietnam.

Also according to Dr. Nguyen Van Binh, until now, relevant departments, institutes have agreed in principle to implement this pilot project. However, the current problem is a thorough review of the quality of vaccines, effective use .

The units also requested PATH Vietnam to complete the legal documents of vaccines (production licenses, quality standards, circulation permits in Vietnam), and coordinate with the implementing units to have enough professional conditions and capacities to develop clinical test dossiers for vaccines in strict compliance with current regulations (including scientific and ethical contents in research) as a basis through scientific councils Study engineering and Ethics Council, Ministry of Health before official implementation.

By the end of 2006, the deployment of HPV vaccination trials will be conducted in Vietnam.

It is known that in Vietnam every year, tens of thousands of women with cervical cancer are detected each year, ranking second among the types of cancer of the weaker sex and nearly as high as the number of breast cancers.

According to the Vietnam Cancer Society, about 120,000 new cancers are discovered each year and this number tends to increase. Among the causes mentioned are the problem of degraded habitats and processed foods that are increasingly being used with chemicals that people do not know about their harms, how.