From 2025 onwards, a single dose will be administered to both girls and boys aged between 12 and 18.

A budget of 1,123,180.60 euros has been earmarked after the Consell de Govern gave its authorisation.

The Balearic Islands will acquire 22,199 doses of the nonavalent vaccine against the human papillomavirus by 2025 for a value of 1,123,180.60 euros, after the Consell de Govern gave the authorisation.

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The Balearic Islands will buy 22,199 doses of human papillomavirus vaccine by 2025

In 2025, the new HPV vaccination recommendations of the Ponencia de Programa y Registro de Vacunaciones, approved on 18 July by the Public Health Commission of the Consejo Interterritorial del Sistema Nacional de Salud, will be introduced into the strategy against the human papillomavirus.

Thus, for next year, the vaccination indication for all girls and boys from 12 to 18 years of age will be unified with a single dose, instead of two doses as has been the case until now. The changes, which will include a recapture of children in this age group, respond to the scientific evidence gathered in recent years regarding vaccination.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a virus that mainly affects the skin and mucous membranes. So far, more than 150 different types of this virus have been identified and twelve are considered to be carcinogenic.

Depending on the type of virus, they can cause skin warts, genital warts and some types of cancer, mainly cervical cancer, and, in much smaller proportions, cancer of the vagina, anus, penis, mouth or larynx. Most infections are symptomless and disappear spontaneously within a variable period of up to two years. Those that persist beyond two years are more often associated with precancerous lesions.

The most effective way to prevent HPV infection is vaccination. Condoms prevent many HPV infections, although they are not fully effective because HPV infection spreads throughout the genital area and condoms protect only part of it. Despite this, condoms should always be used, as they also prevent pregnancy and other sexually transmitted infections.

Women are the main victims of HPV-caused cancers, particularly cervical cancer, especially in young women.