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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) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday March 07 2018, @01:10PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday March 07 2018, @01:10PM (#648972)

    How can you possibly imagine that any thought at all went into his opinion about the safety or medical efficacy of a vaccine.

    Oh, no, absolutely no rational thought was involved in the process. Nonetheless, the Governor of Texas pushed an opt-out mandate scheme for a new, at the time wholly unproven in the field, vaccine on all Texas Middle School girls - most likely because his buddies in the pharma industry winked at him.

    The thing that really grinds my gears about all this graft and corruption is how little it takes to actually buy a relatively powerful politician. Not even $100K, sometimes less than $10K and you can get decisions pushed that make tens of millions of dollars profit, while simultaneously potentially causing hundreds of millions of dollars of harm to the electorate the politician is supposed to be representing.

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