By: Norma Erickson 10 September 2010 Amidst all of the controversy over HPV vaccinations worldwide, mothers in the United Kingdom have yet another concern. It seems that according to a little known law, children as young as 12 are able to give consent for medical procedures, including HPV vaccinations, without parental consent, as long as […]
Vaccine promotion – the medium matters too
Posted by Grant Jacobs on Sciblogs 28 October 2010 While some of the writers here are gearing up for Vaccine Awareness Week, Esther Taunton from Taranaki Daily News reports that the low up-take of the government-funded human papillomavirus (HPV) immunisation programme is being laid at the feet of lack of engagement with social media […]
By: Naomi Arnold, The Nelson Mail
By: Esther Taunton 28 October 2010 Social networking websites could be putting teenage girls at risk of contracting a deadly disease. New Plymouth GP Peter Catt says girls are choosing to believe what they read on the internet instead of the advice of medical practitioners when it comes to the Government-funded cervical cancer vaccine. […]
Assumptions get in the way of vaccine
By: Naomi Arnold, The Nelson Mail 1 October 2010 A vaccination programme to protect people from the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) has been “bedevilled” by an assumption that getting girls vaccinated means they’re having sex, Nelson’s GP spokesman says. Gardasil, a vaccine that helps to prevent cervical, vaginal and vulval cancers and genital warts, […]
Mothers' Alliance correspondence to Irish Medicines Board
By: Nora Bennis November 2010 (posted with author’s permission) A Chara, Mothers Alliance Ireland has viewed the Irish Medicines Board November report of adverse reactions to Gardasil HPV vaccine which has been administered in secondary schools across Ireland. I have been asked by our members to write to you to express our dismay at the failure of the […]
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