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...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 as it will help prevent cervical cancer...
...cases and 233,000 people killed from the cancer per annum, making the disease the second most common cancer in women and increasing the significance of the vaccine’s development. The vaccine works by preventing the transmission of four of the 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...
...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 70% of cervical cancers...
...conservatives, this comes down to a question of parental rights. Unlike diseases for which there are required immunizations, explains Klepacki, "this is a disease you don't catch by sneezing or coughing. It's linked to a behavior. You don't contract HPV by sitting in a classroom. So this is a different issue." Parents need to make an informed decision; her group's website includes the pros and cons of vaccination and has links to the CDC and the American Cancer Society. "You may want to vaccinate a child just in case," she says. "We see the extremely positive...
...have access to it unless it's mandatory." Many parents might not know to ask for it, or be able to afford it. "If it's available in theory but it costs $375, its not available to everybody. If it's only effective before women have been exposed to HPV, we've missed our opportunity." Besides, she says, every state already has a law allowing parents to decline vaccination on religious grounds without their kids being banned from school. But "by making it mandatory, you make it accessible...