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It’s not anything close to a leap back to the era of free love, but it is a step toward safer sex and preventing cancer. In June, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had approved Gardasil as a vaccine against strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer in women. Subsequently, the Center for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended that girls receive the vaccine routinely at age 11 or 12. The vaccine offers a major breakthrough in women’s health...
...more than 100 different strains of HPV, including some of the strains that substantially increase a woman’s risk of developing cervical cancer. Additionally, the vaccine blocks the transmission of some of the strains that cause genital warts. Two of the strains of HPV that Gardasil blocks cause 70 percent of cervical cancer, and the other two strains cause 90 percent of the cases of genital warts. So while Gardasil will not eliminate cervical cancer or genital warts, it will greatly reduce the number of new cases. Moreover, the vaccine is over 95 percent effective in preventing...
...should, be scared into abstinence is simply false and leads uninformed teens to engage in unsafe sexual behavior. Rather, teens should be educated on the practices of safe sex and the risks associated with sexual intercourse so that they can make smart informed decisions and protect themselves with Gardasil, regardless of their sexual choices...
...pricey. The vaccine consists of three separate shots administered over six months and costs about $360, a price that is a reach for many U.S. families and an impossibility for most in developing nations. While Merck, Gardasil’s manufacturer, has stated that it is committed to providing Gardasil to the developing world and is working with the Gates Foundation to do so, it remains to be seen if and how this will be done, as many other vaccination programs for the impoverished have faltered. (In the United States, Gardasil is included in the federal Vaccines for Children program...
Harvard University Health Services (UHS) will offer female students vaccinations to protect against cervical cancer and genital warts. The vaccines will be available starting October 1. The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Gardasil vaccine, manufactured by Merck, this June. The vaccine protects against various strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) which an FDA press release called “the most common sexually-transmitted infection in the United States,” affecting half of all sexually active Americans. The FDA claimed that the vaccine is 100% effective against the two strains of HPV which cause...