After much review and thought concerning this bill, our group has decided that no longer requiring HPV vaccination is not something we support. As nursing students, we have learned that vaccination is often a necessity in preventing the spread of disease. We feel that if girls are no longer required HPV vaccination by the 6th grade then the risk of contracting HPV will rise.
The chance that adolescents can choose to be sexually active and thus transmit HPV is too great of a consequence to no longer require vaccination. In regards to safety and decreasing cervical cancers associated with HPV, our group believes that HPV vaccination should be required to protect those individuals in the case that they do become sexually active and have a chance of exposure to HPV.
Our political involvement in countering this bill is important. Our group plans to write letters to district congressional leaders expressing our opinions about this bill and encourage them to review our blog, which shows evidence-based information about why we believe this bill is detrimental to public health.
Demspey and Patel write that “Data accrued from clinical and epidemiologic studies thus far provide reassurance regarding the safety and efficacy of currently available HPV vaccines. While vaccination against HPV has the potential to reduce both morbidity and mortality from HPV-associated disease, this will ultimately depend upon utilization of HPV vaccines among those at risk”. If this bill is passed, it may further deteriorate the attitude about and rate of vaccine. By allowing schools to continue the mandated vaccinations, which have “shown in clinical trials to have nearly 100% efficacy in females against persistent infection with vaccine-targeted types of HPV”, HPV and HPV associated cervical cancers may begin to be less prevalent in the future (Dempsey & Patel, 2010).
Stakeholders (people or groups who affect or who would be affected by the outcome of this bill) include:
Adolescent girls
Parents/guardians
Health insurance companies
Clinicians/primary care providers/school nurses
Religious figures
The state health department
Merck and Co, the vaccine Gardasil’s manufacturer
We encourage our readers to join us by taking a step to further this cause. Make your voice heard by sending your opinion about the HPV vaccine to your local legislator in the VA House of Delegates.
The 3 main legislators that our group will contact are all associated with our current surrounding districts; Rockingham, and Augusta County.
Contact information is below:
We think this blog brings up good points about why HPV should be required. HPV, being a very common sexually transmitted disease, should not be rising if there is actually a vaccine that prevents the spread of it. There are many other STDs in the US that do not have vaccines yet and are spreading throughout the adolescent population. Protecting this vulnerable group before the majority of them become sexually active is important to reduce one of the most common and easily transmitted STDs. Being in college, we know a lot of people who have been affected by HPV and the vaccination could have prevented them from contracting this disease. This vaccine can also reduce the outbreak of cervical cancer and infertility in young women who plan to have children later in life.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your support. You're right; as college students we see a lot of the effects of HPV first hand and we will continue to see how HPV and cervical cancer will later impact women around us. It is weird to think that what we are seeing now could be significantly reduced if only more girls were educated and vaccinated. Sometimes it is easy to focus on children as children and we forget that one day they will grow up and be exposed to these kind of diseases which we can now start preventing early on.
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