HPV Vaccines
HPV Vaccines
WHO Recommends 2-Dose Vaccine, HPV Screening for Cervical Cancer Prevention
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- Category: Anal & Cervical Cancer
- Published on Tuesday, 09 December 2014 00:00
- Written by WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) last week released new guidance for preventing and controlling cervical cancer, which causes more than 270,000 deaths annually worldwide. The guidelines call for girls to receive 2 rather than 3 doses of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and for women to be screened using less frequent HPV tests rather than Pap smears.
FDA Approves New Vaccine Effective Against 9 Types of Human Papillomavirus
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- Category: Anal & Cervical Cancer
- Published on Tuesday, 09 December 2014 00:00
- Written by WHO
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week approved a new "9-valent" human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine from Merck that protects against infection with more high-risk or cancer-causing strains. The new Gardasil 9 vaccine is expected to prevent about 90% of cervical, anal, and genital cancers. The vaccine is approved for young women ages 9-26 and young men ages 9-15.
Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Is Effective for Women with HIV
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- Category: Women & HIV
- Published on Tuesday, 06 May 2014 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
HIV positive women respond well to the Gardasil human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, offering them protection against cervical cancer, according to a study published in the April 14 electronic edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Related recent research found that both Gardasil and Cervarix are effective in people with HIV.
AIDS 2014: Young People with HIV Respond Well to Human Papillomavirus Vaccine
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- Category: HPV Vaccines
- Published on Tuesday, 29 July 2014 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
The quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine worked as well for teens and young adults with HIV as it did for their HIV negative counterparts, according to study findings presented the 20thInternational AIDS Conference last week in Melbourne.
Black Women More Likely to Carry Human Papillomavirus Strains Not Covered by Vaccines
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- Category: HPV Vaccines
- Published on Wednesday, 30 October 2013 00:00
- Written by Duke University
African-American women with precancerous cervical abnormalities are about half as likely to have cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18, and more likely to have other types for which the Gardasil and Cervarix vaccines do not provide protection, according to a study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research taking pace this week in Maryland.
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- IDWeek 2013: HIV+ Young Women Have Adequate Response to Human Papillomavirus Vaccine
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