Girls and the HPV Vaccination

Introduction

HPV Vaccination should be given to girls before they start high school. These vaccines have the potential to reduce cervical cancer deaths around the world by as much as two-thirds, if all women were to take the vaccine and if protection turns out to be long-term vaccines (National cancer institute p1)Let us first examine the definition of HPV. Understanding a disease starts with definition of its properties and causes. Human papilloma virus causes warts. Warts are skin growths which are non-cancerous in nature; their appearance depends on where they grow.

Even though there are over hundred kinds; the only two that cause visible warts are types eleven and six.

Even though you can get the infection in your mouth and the throat, the chances of you contracting it is very rare. Once the infection occurs, it can spread to the genitals or to the anal area. You can also spread the virus even if you do not have any symptoms of infection or any visible warts“. These include 2 types that cause about 70 percent of cervical cancer and 2 types that cause about 90 percent of genital warts. HPV vaccine can prevent most genital warts and most cases of cervical cancer” (CDC, p.1) In young girls, cervical cancer due to HPV can occur if sexual intercourse takes place at an extremely earlier age. The danger of this kind of cancer is very serious.

Analysis

This vaccine should be given to for girls between 11 to 26 years, before they start going to highs school. As they will not be sexually active. The HPV vaccine prevents any chance of cervical cancer. A few states are thinking of making the HPV vaccination mandatory for girls, before they start high school, as this is the time when they become sexually active.

It will also be better if the state is doing the right thing by making this vaccine a requirement for young girls who are about to start high school as this is a decision that should be made mandatory.

The decision of whether or not a young girl should get the HPV vaccination should be completely matter of the state and not the parents because it would protect the young girls from a sexually transmitted disease before they are sexually active. By this vaccine indirectly the girls are also learning moral values.

As they learn that sex is not a game but a dangerous act as well. HPV is not a disease that is transmitted by sitting next to someone in class. It is not an infectious disease that flies through the air with no boundaries. However sex has become infectious disease and thus the only way to protect the girls are by giving them vaccines.

The flu virus is a virus that often starts in school. The flu virus vaccination is not a requirement for children before they begin high school. “The flu virus spreads through the air when a person who has the virus sneezes, coughs, or speaks “(Flu fact p1). HPV can only ...