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Tanzania's battle to protect girls from HPV
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 11/06/2023
» When the health workers arrived at Upendo Primary School on the edge of the Tanzanian capital, they instructed girls who would turn 14 this year to line up to get a shot.
US woman who contracted STD in car awarded $5.2m from vehicle insurer
AFP, Published on 11/06/2022
» LOS ANGELES: A US woman who contracted a sexually transmitted disease from her partner during romantic encounters in his car has been awarded $5.2 million in damages from his vehicle insurance company.
HPV vaccines 'substantially' reduce cervical cancer risk, study finds
AFP, Published on 04/11/2021
» PARIS: Cervical cancer cases plummeted among British women who were vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, according to a study published on Thursday.
Fraught history haunts Japan virus vaccine roll-out
AFP, Published on 08/01/2021
» TOKYO - A history of vaccine controversies in Japan may cast a long shadow over the coronavirus jab roll-out, experts warn, even as the country battles a severe third wave of infections.
Photos of Chinese tourists at Hong Kong hospital go viral
Published on 24/02/2019
» Hundreds of visitors queued for hours to get HPV vaccines at an elite private hospital in Hong Kong on Saturday, prompting a heated debate among locals as to how medical services would cope as the city was further integrated into the “Greater Bay Area”.
Vaccine could virtually eliminate cervical cancer: study
AFP, Published on 20/02/2019
» PARIS - The rapid scale-up of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine could virtually eliminate cervical cancer in a handful of rich countries within three decades, and in most other nations by century's end, researchers said Wednesday.
Early start needed to save lives
Life, Sukhumaporn Laiyok, Published on 07/01/2014
» Cervical cancer, a condition caused by malignant cells forming in the cervix, is one of the most common forms of cancer and is responsible for a high number of fatalities worldwide each year. In this country it is the second most common cancer in women (after breast cancer) and the one that causes the most deaths among the female population: it is estimated that cervical cancer takes an average of 14 lives every single day.
One dose of HPV vaccine may prevent cervical cancer
AFP, Published on 04/11/2013
» A single dose -- rather than the recommended three -- of a vaccine against the sexually transmitted disease HPV may be enough to ward off cervical cancer, researchers say.
Cancer kills less in US, but prevention lacking
AFP, Published on 08/01/2013
» Fewer people are dying from cancer in the United States, but a government report published Monday warned that a lack of preventative measures could stem a steady decline in mortality rates.
A few scares here and there
Life, Published on 25/12/2012
» There is both good and bad news with regard to healthcare issues in Thailand. The good news is we did not experience any major disease outbreak in 2012, nor were visited by a new disease or virus.