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...Nonetheless, we continued to advocate that students be educated about HPV and make an informed choice whether or not to get the vaccine. To judge how much our campus knew about human papillomavirus (HPV), we conducted a survey with undergraduates at the College. The most important conclusion from the study was that cost was by far the biggest barrier to vaccine uptake...
After months of lobbying by students for price reductions, Harvard University Health Services (UHS) said yesterday that it would offer the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for $25 per shot. Women under the age of 26 on Harvard’s insurance plan will be able to obtain the vaccine, which has been shown to decrease risk of cervical cancer, at the new price from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. today at a “Gardasil Clinic” in the Holyoke Center. The price drop comes after the Harvard College Women’s Center, the Seneca...
...hard to ignore the letters H-P-V in a headline. Much has been written about HPV, or human papillomavirus, which infects some 20 million people in the U.S. and causes cervical cancer and genital warts. Even more has been written about the HPV vaccine, Gardasil, which was approved by the government last summer and is widely recommended for girls and women aged 11 to 26. But many consumers still have questions: for starters, can the vaccine help women who are already infected? Can it help older women over the age of 26? And can it do anything for boys...
Oral sex can get most men's attention. The topic becomes considerably more relevant, however, when coupled with a new study linking the human papillomavirus (HPV) to an increased risk of a kind of oral cancer more often seen...
...vaccination, $462, is prohibitively high. The University, through UHS, should follow the Massachussetts state government’s lead in fighting cervical cancer and subsidize the vaccination’s costs for women who want it. HPV is a common, sexually-transmitted disease caused by strains of the human papillomavirus group of viruses. The Center for Disease Control estimates that genital strains of HPV will infect over 50 percent of sexually active men and women at some point in their lives. Once someone is infected with the virus, he or she may remain asymptomatic or may develop genital warts...