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posted by martyb on Tuesday March 06 2018, @06:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the still-have-a-long-way-to-go dept.

Naaman Zhou at The Guardian writes that Australia's free human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme in schools has been highly successful. The International Papillomavirus Society calculates that within 40 years, the number of new cases of cervical cancer will become nearly negligible.

HPV (human papillomavirus) is a sexually transmitted infection that causes 99.9% of cervical cancers. In 2007, the federal government began providing the vaccine for free to girls aged 12-13 years, and in 2013, it extended the program to boys.

Girls and boys outside those ages but under 19 can also access two doses of the vaccine for free. In 2016, 78.6% of 15-year old girls and 72.9% of 15-year old boys had been vaccinated.

As a result, the HPV rate among women aged 18 to 24 dropped from 22.7% to 1.1% between 2005 and 2015.

Eradication is still a few decades out but within reach. The vaccinations are backed up by more advanced cervical screening tests, which are themselves highly successful in detecting high-risk HPV infections before they turn really bad.

Source : Australia could become first country to eradicate cervical cancer. The Guardian


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  • (Score: 2, Troll) by VLM on Tuesday March 06 2018, @09:50PM (5 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 06 2018, @09:50PM (#648726)

    As a practical matter all vaccines have side effects up to and including death, admittedly at low rates.

    "We don't have to tell you that there's a 1 in 1e7 chance your kid would end up dead, so we didn't, so tough cookies, have a nice funeral" seems a weird protocol.

    Also any parent knows the nightmare of getting school to not stand in the way of simple prescription medicines, but this gets a free pass, in fact its mandatory, because of a tangential relationship to whore like sex. You need a doctors note to administer freaking advil but this will be forced into your kids like it or not, which is just a little inconsistent.

    Another oddity is the three hour parent and child concussion training and waiver form I have to sign for all sports including, I kid you not, track and field. But this is tangentially related to whore like sex lifestyle so you will not be informed nor require consent.

    You can hand wave around all the poor impoverished kid sex stuff and with careful propaganda techniques it can be made to seem seems rational or crazy to oppose, but in comparison to other school relationships with medicine or school relationships with medical issues and consent, its totally bizarre.

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  • (Score: 2) by Spook brat on Tuesday March 06 2018, @10:01PM (4 children)

    by Spook brat (775) on Tuesday March 06 2018, @10:01PM (#648732) Journal

    You can hand wave around all the poor impoverished kid sex stuff and with careful propaganda techniques it can be made to seem seems rational or crazy to oppose, but in comparison to other school relationships with medicine or school relationships with medical issues and consent, its totally bizarre.

    Exactly, which is why I'm confused by DannyB's apparent displeasure that there are people lobbying to allow parents to maintain their medical authority over their children.

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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday March 06 2018, @11:04PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 06 2018, @11:04PM (#648765) Journal

      I'm not too displeased with it seriously. It is the edge and corner cases I'm thinking of. Really, there are just some people who should not be parents.

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    • (Score: 2) by dry on Wednesday March 07 2018, @04:11AM (2 children)

      by dry (223) on Wednesday March 07 2018, @04:11AM (#648867) Journal

      There are people refusing any types of vaccinations for their kids in a world where herd immunity is a real thing.
      There are people feeding their kids bleach because, despite all evidence, they belief it is healthy.
      There are people who refuse blood transfusions for their kids when it is a matter of life and death due to some words in a book.
      There are people that instead of taking their really sick kid to a doctor, use a (bad) herbalist or other weird practitioners of so called healthcare.
      There are even people who tie their kids up in a cellar or closet, barely feed them and give no medical care.

      At what point does society interfere with these and similar practices? Wait until the kid is dead and charge them with neglect or failing to provide the necessities of life?
      It's a hard problem as parents/guardians should be largely free to raise their children how they like but children shouldn't be abused.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 07 2018, @12:47PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 07 2018, @12:47PM (#648966)

        VLM feeds his kids bleach. He wants them to be white inside and out.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 07 2018, @04:55PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 07 2018, @04:55PM (#649062)

        other people's kids are not your business. fuck off.