Arguments Against HPV Vaccines

Humanpapaloma (HPV) is a sexually transmitted disease that causes multiple types of cancer, which affect both males and females, it is a preventable disease. Prevention includes a series of three injections beginning at age eleven, although it is a controversial subject among parents and “conservative groups”, which believe that mandating the HPV vaccine would promote promiscuous behavior (pg. 311). The vaccine should be mandated to protect the future generation and the world against this preventable sexually transmitted disease that results in cancer and untimely deaths. Initially when the vaccine was introduced to the public it focused mostly on providing females with the vaccine, but advances in research have shown that the vaccine can decrease the risk of anal cancer, penile cancer, oral and pharynx cancer in males. Tissue/skin of the penis is similar to the vulva so, both men and women, are at risk for multiple sexually transmitted diseases such as genital warts and lesions; the HPV vaccines can decrease these risks. According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), genital HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease and consists of nearly 120 strains. The …show more content…
2013). Approximately one in ten woman aged twenty-one to sixty-five years had not been screened for this preventable disease in the past five years”(Bernard, V. 2014). Within this group one in four had never been screened for cervical cancer. These statistics can be greatly reduced with the Human Papillomavirus vaccination, early cervical cancer screenings performed during a well woman exam, abstinence, and safe sex practices; although condoms do not cover the entire area that could be infected with HPV. Currently there are no screening tests for HPV in