UK backs HPV vaccination plan
June 21, 2007
The UK has provisionally agreed to begin a program of HPV vaccination to prevent cervical cancer for girls starting secondary school.
The Department of Health says it has agreed, in principle, to accept advice from the UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation that HPV vaccinations should be given for girls around 12 to 13 years old.
The UK is now likely to become the 9th European country to introduce such a program. They are, however, still met with much of the religous debate that we see happening state side.
What will not help matters, is that many articles such as this one headline is as a “sex disease.”
When will people begin to realize that this is not about promoting promiscuity and all about reducing the risk of cervical cancer?
It is safe to say that pretty much EVERYONE will have sex one day. So why the hooplah about using modern medicine to reduce the risk? If modern medicine could vaccinate agianst other, more deadly STD’s would there be the same backlash?
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