Essay On Hpv Vaccine
Background of the Case
The Centers for Disease Control issued a recommendation on June 29, 2006 that a new vaccine for the human papillomavirus be given to girls around the age of eleven to twelve to prevent this disease that was affecting nearly half of the United States population. The HPV vaccination was said to be most effective before there was any sexual activity with the girl, and that it would prevent about 75 percent of the 27,900 cases of cervical, vulvar, vaginal, anal, penile, and head and neck cancers that occurred every year.
The organization Advocates for Youth urged that the vaccine should be included in the school vaccination programs as a requirement, and that there be an opt-out program for the parents that were really against their daughters being vaccinated with this new vaccine. The issue of this case arises with the representatives of the Family Research Council, who were a conservative Christian advocacy organization. They said that by pushing the vaccine on eleven to twelve year girls to prevent a sexually transmitted disease, it would carry the message that since they had the …show more content…
Promiscuity is whether this human papillomavirus vaccine will be strictly beneficial to reducing the number of individuals that contract HPV or will the vaccine cause young teens to enact in premarital sex, which is a controversial issue to many people. If there is an immense increase of individuals having premarital sex, many argue that it could cause the complete failure of abstinence only education that is taught in most schools. Another issue that is talked about briefly in the case presentation is the unknown side effects of this new found vaccination. The National Vaccine Information Center, an organization founded by parents with children who were injured by vaccinations, said that the safety of the vaccine was still not determined to satisfactorily levels for it to be a required immunization (Van Camp pg.
The Centers for Disease Control issued a recommendation on June 29, 2006 that a new vaccine for the human papillomavirus be given to girls around the age of eleven to twelve to prevent this disease that was affecting nearly half of the United States population. The HPV vaccination was said to be most effective before there was any sexual activity with the girl, and that it would prevent about 75 percent of the 27,900 cases of cervical, vulvar, vaginal, anal, penile, and head and neck cancers that occurred every year.
The organization Advocates for Youth urged that the vaccine should be included in the school vaccination programs as a requirement, and that there be an opt-out program for the parents that were really against their daughters being vaccinated with this new vaccine. The issue of this case arises with the representatives of the Family Research Council, who were a conservative Christian advocacy organization. They said that by pushing the vaccine on eleven to twelve year girls to prevent a sexually transmitted disease, it would carry the message that since they had the …show more content…
Promiscuity is whether this human papillomavirus vaccine will be strictly beneficial to reducing the number of individuals that contract HPV or will the vaccine cause young teens to enact in premarital sex, which is a controversial issue to many people. If there is an immense increase of individuals having premarital sex, many argue that it could cause the complete failure of abstinence only education that is taught in most schools. Another issue that is talked about briefly in the case presentation is the unknown side effects of this new found vaccination. The National Vaccine Information Center, an organization founded by parents with children who were injured by vaccinations, said that the safety of the vaccine was still not determined to satisfactorily levels for it to be a required immunization (Van Camp pg.