Prevalencia y factores de riesgo asociados al Virus del Papiloma Humano en mujeres jóvenes atendidas durante junio del 2023 a junio del 2024, en el Hospital Liborio Panchana Sotomayor.

Abstract

According to statistics, each year, an average of 500,000 women in the world are diagnosed with cervical cancer, which is associated with High Risk Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection. A significant percentage of HPV infections will manage to resolve themselves, in a variable period of time. Some genotypes of the virus, such as HPV16, are capable of remaining in the body for decades and can cause different types of cancer, being, in women, the most common cervical cancer. We know that current knowledge of the natural history of infection by the most aggressive types of HPV, and the prolonged period of time in which it develops, allows excellent prevention of the disease. To date, very positive results have been found with prevention using screening and vaccination in the population that, statistically, has not yet initiated sexual activity, however, additional studies are needed to reliably confirm these results, since they have a superior importance for the control of morbidity and mortality that the infection maintains in the human population.