AOK pays vaccination against cervix cancer for girls

AOK pays the vaccination against cervix cancer for girls who are insured at it. Prerequisite for the defrayal is a medical piece of advice. By the new vaccination the infection can be prevented with certain humane Papilloma viruses (HVP). These HVP viruses are responsible for about 70 per cent of the cervix cancer illnesses. The vaccine also offers protection against HPV viruses which are responsible for about 90 per cent of all genital warts.Since the viruses are transmitted by sexual intercourse, it is important to vaccinate the girls if possible in front of the first sexual contact \”. The present vaccination cannot offer protection totally, it reduces the illness risk but clear \” Dr. Katja Matthias, woman doctor at the AOK federal association, explains.\r\n\r\nAOK takes on the costs for the vaccination against cervix cancer for girls at old age between nine and 17 years. It is the first vaccination, the cancer can be prevented through . \”We would like to provide the young girls with this special possibility already now \”, as stated by Dr. of Hans Jürgen Ahrens, chairman of the executive board of the AOK federal association. Till now, the vaccination against cervix cancer is not paid by all health insurance companies. The permanent vaccinating committee of Robert becomes Koch institute (STIKO) about this vaccination advised in February.\r\n\r\nIn three steps\r\n\r\n\”The vaccine is administered in three steps in which two months between the first and second dose and months between the second and third dose four should be\”, explains Dr. Katja Matthias. Altogether, the three individual doses are about 500 euros. At first parents of girls or young women who are insured and let themselves be vaccinated at AOK must get in advance performance and get the costs of hers office AOK refunds.\r\n\r\nAbout 6,500 women fall ill with cervix cancer according to information from the German cancer help in Germany each year. At the cancer illnesses with women cervix cancer takes tenth place.\r\n

Early diagnosis appointments furthermore use

\r\nEven if the new vaccination is a good protection, furthermore health precautions remain important because cervix cancer cannot be prevented completely and the vaccination can not offer protection against the infection with other sexually communicable illnesses. Dr. Katja Matthias: Vaccinated women should use the early diagnosis examination regularly \” to the cervix cancer furthermore, too. Changes can be recognized early and then treated on time by the so-called PAP end strokes carried out in the cells of the cervix. Also against infections, such as the use of condoms, protective measures are \” further necessary despite the vaccination.\r\n\r\nThe early diagnosis examination to the cervix cancer is offered to the women insured at AOK as of 20 years once a year. AOK takes on the costs; no practice charges must be paid for this.