Healthy Skepticism Library item: 10028

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Publication type: Journal Article

Charo RA.
Politics, Parents, and Prophylaxis — Mandating HPV Vaccination in the United States
NEJM 2007 May 10; 356:(19):1905-1908
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/356/19/1905?query=TOC

Abstract:

Cancer prevention has fallen victim to the culture wars. Throughout the United States, state legislatures are scrambling to respond to the availability of Merck’s human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil, and to the likely introduction of GlaxoSmithKline’s not-yet-approved HPV vaccine, Cervarix, which have been shown to be effective in preventing infection with HPV strains that cause about 70% of cases of cervical cancer. At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has voted unanimously to recommend that girls 11 and 12 years of age receive the vaccine, and the CDC has added Gardasil to its Vaccines for Children Program, which provides free immunizations to impoverished or underserved children…

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