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. 2012 Oct 9:12:250.
doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-250.

Estimated health and economic impact of quadrivalent HPV (types 6/11/16/18) vaccination in Brazil using a transmission dynamic model

Kosuke Kawai  1 , Gabriela Tannus Branco de Araujo, Marcelo Fonseca, Matthew Pillsbury, Puneet K Singhal
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Estimated health and economic impact of quadrivalent HPV (types 6/11/16/18) vaccination in Brazil using a transmission dynamic model

Kosuke Kawai et al. BMC Infect Dis. .

Abstract

Background: Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women in Brazil. We examined the health and economic impacts of quadrivalent HPV vaccination in Brazil.

Methods: We adapted a previously developed transmission dynamic model to estimate the effectiveness of HPV vaccination on cervical cancer, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grades 2 and 3 (CIN2/3), CIN1, and genital warts. We evaluated following vaccination strategies: routine vaccination of 12-year-old girls and routine vaccination in combination with a catch-up vaccination of 12 to 26-year-old women.

Results: The model projected that the vaccination would reduce the incidence rates of HPV 6/11/16/18-related cervical cancer, CIN2/3, CIN1, and female genital warts by 94% to 98% at year 100. Routine vaccination in combination with a catch-up vaccination could prevent approximately 163,000 cases of cervical cancer, 48,000 deaths from cervical cancer, 2.3 million cases of CIN2/3, and 11.4 million genital warts in the next 50 years. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratios for female vaccination strategies ranged from R$350 to R$720 (US$219 to US$450) per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) gained.

Conclusions: Our study demonstrates that quadrivalent HPV female vaccination can be a cost-effective public health intervention that can substantially reduce the burden of cervical diseases and genital warts in Brazil.

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The incidence rates of HPV16/18-related cervical cancer, HPV16/18-related CIN2/3, and HPV6/11-related genital warts among females and males by vaccination strategy during the next 100 years. We assumed that approximately 71% of cervical cancer cases were attributable to HPV 16 and 18, and 90% of genital warts cases were attributable to HPV 6 and 11 in Brazil.
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