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What do you think of the new cervical cancer prevention shot???? |
I don鈥檛 know much about it, but what I understand is that it Is given to young women who are not sexually active. It is said to help prevent getting genital warts???????That led to cervical cancer. Now this is a good thing, but at the same time, some may see It as a free card to sleep around because they believe they are safe. This seems kind of ridicules that in today鈥檚 society young women (and men) are with so many partners that they, are now taking shots to prevent a disease that is preventable already. Another thing is the side effects that are possible with this new drug. I mean it just seems like people are willing to take something for anything, it just doesn鈥檛 seem right鈥︹€︹€︹€︹€︹€︹€︹€︹€︹€︹€︹€? I think the new vaccines for cervical cancer are a great idea. They appear to be effective against 4 major and serious forms of HPV virus. HPV is nasty and exists in many forms. The best protection is, of course the use of condoms but some recent studies also suggest that circumcising males may be equally useful in dealing with this virus. I guess I view Gardicil and likely some of the other on-coming vaccines as being a VERY SIGNIFICANT development in providing protection to women. It is but one weapon, however, in our struggle in this regard. The use of condoms and circumcising males are probably of nearly equal value if we really want to knock off all forms of HPV. There will always be those who feel that any protection that we women get, leads us to condone promiscuous and otherwise unprotected sex. That is nonsense and we all recognize this! Our sexual behaviour should be governed by our values, just as it always has been! The long term side effects of the vaccine remain unknown, but again it appears that protection is known to be effective for 5 or more years. That gives me some assurance. I hope this gives you some idea of my views. Beyond what each of us think, YOU have options and choices. Best wishes. Gardasil protects against the three types of HPV that can cause cervical cancer, but not all cervical cancer is caused by HPV. This is not a moral issue, at least it's not the moral issue that you want to make it out to be. This is about preventing a devastating and possibly deadly illness, and there is nothing immoral in that. In fact, the only immorality there would be to NOT allow the vaccine to be used or administered to your own daughter. Abstinence, which is what you want everyone to practise, simply doesn't work. Abstinence education simply doesn't work, either, which is likely your next argument. Abstinence education, in fact, is responsible for the fact that the highest rates of teen sex, teen pregnancies, teen abortions, teen STI's, etc is in the very country that wants to teach abstinence and only abstinence - the US. Even if it did, abstinence education offers no protection against force and coercion. It's probably time that you got off your high horse and looked at all of the numbers, and all of the science. The shot name is called Gardasil. It's a series of 3 shots over about am 8-9 month time span. I've gotten my second shot and I'm going back to the doctor in a few weeks to get my last shot. From what I've noticed there are no side-effects (at least none that has happened to me). However, I did have a couple plantar warts on the bottom of my foot and a few weeks after I got my second shot they started to go away (warts are connected to the HPV virus). (I have a feeling that the vaccine had an effect on them). Getting this shot will not necessarily make you want to sleep around more because you are "safe". Heck, there are PLENTY of other nasty STDs that you could get that you aren't protected from. If people wanted to be somewhat safe they might as well use a condom or a BC pill. As I see it, getting this shot will not make me sleep around any more than I am now (which is none)... In fact I haven't really thought about being "safe" suring sex at all since I have this cancer prevention... this is just something that might save me when I do happen to have sex later in life. You'd just have to use your common sense and think if having sex is worth it. Beleive me... this vaccine WILL NOT make you resistant to all infections... it just saves you from 1 of the many out there. You have to weigh your risks. Would you rather risk potential side effects, or death by cervical cancer? There is nothing wrong with 'sleeping around'. It's the person's body, and their choice, and because you don't agree with it doesn't give you a right to try to put down their choice to make it as safe as possible. Is isn't only people who 'sleep around' who contract the possibly deadly disease. Also, as a note, it can be given to sexually active women. It will, however, make no difference at all if they've already contracted the disease. I would like to add in, as an edit, that Gardasil does not prevent all variants of the disease, only the most common cancer-causing ones. It all comes down to education. People need to understand that the shot will ONLY protect against some of the strains of HPV that cause cervical cancer. Even if you get the shot, you can still get one of the strains that the shot doesn't protect against, and you can still get a non-cancerous form of HPV infection. HPV is transmitted through sexual contact AND skin-to-skin contact (genital warts). It is extremely common, affecting over 80% of all women at some point in their life. The scary thing, though, is that there is currently no routine medical test to screen men for HPV. So, your partner could have HPV, but you would never know it-it is impossible to tell. So, unless the guy you are sexually active with has NEVER ever had sexual contact with a woman (which is rare), you are likely to get HPV. Women, on the other hand, can be tested for HPV by getting a pap smear. I think that at this point, we really need an HPV test (and vaccine) for MEN, and not just women. Otherwise, the disease will only continue to spread, since we can't expect that every boy will make his first sexual partner and every partner thereafter get a pap smear to be tested for HPV. health counseling experience |
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