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Americans are taking fewer risks when it comes to HIV, a Swedish study puts science behind the use of the pill for period pain, the journal Science recognizes a treatment to reduce the spread of HIV as the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year, a study revealing yet another reason why emergency contraception may be harder to get than it should be, evidence that the HPV vaccine does not actually make young women promiscuous, and more good news about birth control coverage under health reform.
HPV Vaccine Doesn’t Make Teen Girls More Slutty, Survey Finds - The Frisky
“ Another positive finding is that sexually active girls who were vaccinated against HPV were also more likely to consistently use a condom than sexually active girls who were not. ”
BAM.
Boys and young men should be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, or HPV, to protect against anal, mouth and neck cancers that can result from sexual activity, a federal advisory committee said Tuesday.
The recommendation by the panel, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is likely to transform the use of the HPV vaccine, since most private insurers pay for vaccines once the committee recommends them for routine use. The HPV vaccine is unusually expensive. Its three doses cost pediatricians more than $300, and pediatricians often charge patients hundreds more.
The committee recommended that boys ages 11 and 12 should be vaccinated every year and that those between the ages of 13 and 21 should get “catch-up” vaccines if they haven’t already been vaccinated. Vaccinations may be given to boys as young as 9 and to men between the ages of 22 and 26.
I’m pretty sure that Guardsil has been marketed as protecting against genital warts for years. This makes the case for men getting it even stronger!
