The GAVI Alliance has announced a deal with Merck and GlaxoSmithKline that dramatically reduces the price of HPV vaccines in less developed countries. In these countries, the price of Gardasil has been reduced to $4.50 (USD) per dose, and Cervarix to $4.60 per dose. Prior to this public-private partnership agreement between GAVI and the HPV vaccine manufacturers, the lowest public sector price was $13 per dose. This agreement is an important–and exciting–step in protecting girls in less developed countries from cervical ...
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Cervical Cancer Global Crisis Card: Cervical Cancer-Free Coalition is excited to announce the new Cervical Cancer Global Crisis Card, created in collaboration with Global Health Strategies. The Crisis Card provides a snapshot of cervical cancer burden and mortality data from around the world.
Cervical Cancer Global Crisis Card
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India has highest number of women dying from cervical cancer and Zambia has highest mortality rate. Australia provides a global model for dramatically preventing cervical cancer.
More women die of cervical cancer in ...
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The New York Times: The American government’s goal of vaccinating young girls against the human papillomavirus has been disappointing, with less than a third of teenagers having completed a full course of HPV vaccine. But now the United States can look to Australia, which six years into a successful nationwide HPV vaccination campaign has experienced a sharp decline in the number of new cases of genital warts among young men and women.
The country, one of the first to establish a ...
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The percentage of parents who say they won’t have their teen daughters vaccinated against the human papillomavirus increases, even though physicians increasingly recommend the vaccinations.
(USA TODAY) Concerns about safety and side effects for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine — one of the newest shots recommended for adolescents — has increased among parents: 16% cited these fears as the main reason they did not have their daughters vaccinated in 2010, up from 5% in 2008, a new study finds.
And the percentage ...
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(Reuters Health) – More parents of teen girls not fully vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) are intending to forgo the shots altogether – a trend driven by vaccine safety concerns, new research suggests.
That’s despite multiple studies showing the vaccine isn’t tied to any serious side effects but does protect against the virus that causes cervical cancer, researchers said.
“There were a lot of very sensationalized anecdotal reports of (girls) having bad reactions to the vaccine,” said pediatrician and vaccine researcher Dr. ...
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“Cervical Cancer and HPV-What Sisters Need to Know”
Cervical cancer was one of the leading causes of death in our grandmothers’ time. Due to widespread screening with the pap test, death rates from cervical cancer have fallen sharply. However, our sisters are still being diagnosed with and dying from cervical cancer each year.
Did you know that African American women..
are diagnosed with cervical cancer at twice the rate of white women? have the highest cervical cancer death rate of any other group of ...News Category: National
Announcement
Request for Proposal
Issue Date: January 15, 2013
PURPOSE The Cervical Cancer-Free America (CCFA) initiative, led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, seeks to competitively award funding for collaborative research projects that align with CCFA’s national cervical cancer prevention goals:
To increase vaccination, particularly among girls aged 10 to 18, against the human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer; To increase cervical cancer screening by cytology, especially among women who have not been screened in ...News Category: National
(Reuters) – Using cervical fluid collected from routine Pap smears, U.S. researchers were able to spot genetic changes caused by both ovarian and endometrial cancers, offering promise for a new kind of screening test for these deadly cancers.
Experts say that although the test has tremendous potential, it is still years from widespread use. But if proven effective with more testing, it would fill a significant void.
Currently, there are no tests that can reliably detect either ovarian or endometrial cancer, ...
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January 4, 2013 / 61(51);1038-1042
Screening women for cervical cancer can save lives. However, among young women, cervical cancer is relatively rare (1,2), and too-frequent screening can lead to high costs and adverse events associated with overtreatment (3). Before 2012, cervical cancer screening guidelines of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), American Cancer Society (ACS), and U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) differed on age to start and how often to get screened for cervical cancer. (4). In ...
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National Institutes of Health: Women with HIV may benefit from a vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV), despite having already been exposed to HPV, a study finds. Although many may have been exposed to less serious forms of HPV, more than 45 percent of sexually active young women who have acquired HIV appear never to have been exposed to the most common high-risk forms of HPV, according to the study from a National Institutes of Health research network.
HPV is ...
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