In the US, for example, the G-8 country for which we currently have the most data, infection rates have halved in the six years since the vaccine was first introduced. Yet failure to reach the 80% coverage mark means that 50,000 American girls alive today will develop cervical cancer, as will another 4,400 girls with each year of delay.
G8集团对我所在组织的慷慨捐助表明他们了解儿童免疫接种有多重要。可尽管某些G8国家HPV感染率在下降，他们是不是还可以做的更好？比方说我们目前掌握最多数据的G8国家美国，首次引入疫苗以来的六年里感染率已经下降了一半。但未能实现接种率80%的目标意味着今天活着的50,000名美国女孩今后将患上宫颈癌，每拖一年还要增加4,400人。