Cervical Cancer Jab for all teen girls

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What do you think?

Yay or nay?

Most def - yeay!

I asked around about this ( pct,sexual health clinic,local gp et al) and noone seemed to know about the possibility of a catch up scheme for young women over 12.

Its great news that we have a vaccine and also that ,the powers that be, are forward thinking enough to protect our young people .

Its public health, whats not to aplaud?
DDs1 &2 are 10 and 14 so this is timely for us.

I cannot see how anyone could not think it was a good idea.

Complete yay.

IMO it's totally irrational to object to protecting your daughters against a disease just because it's an STD.

very good idea am very pleased

and didn't we all have rubella injections in our teens (assume they still do?) cos of the problems it can cause unborn babies- but it didn't mean we were all about to go get pregnant....

yay
Can imagine as dd hac cp smears are going to be nigh on impossible to do. so at least this will help.

There were people on the radio today takling as if the country is full of 13 year olds thinking "I'd better not have sex because I might get the human papilloma virus - hang on a minute - I've been vaccinated against that! Bring it on!"

Bizarre. Like saying the best time to vaccinate against polio is AFTER they are exposed to the polio virus!

PMSL Seeker!

Headlines like '12-year-olds to have "sex jab"' aren't exactly helping...

I'm glad I don't have a daughter as I would worry about this one.

I'm very concerned about the message it sends, surely we should be ploughing all that money into some serious education into sexual health instead?

to me it says just incase you don't bother with protecting yourself against sti's then, don't worry you might not get the type of cervical cancer that this virus can cause.

public health is great, but we all need to take responsibility for our own health first and foremost and that is what I would rather kids were taught this from as early as poss.

we can't protect against evrything, but new vaccines will be available all the time, where do you stop? thats probably another question.

maybe it should be presented as a cost cutting measure
you take steps to prevent a disease which will have costs in future in hospital costs, death, infertility etc.

sex jab!!! good grief people are weird

Yay, I reckon. I agree with Seeker and Happystory. I doubt v much a jag is going to turn 12yo girls into scarlet hussies overnight.

Moyasmum, they're talking about a catch-up scheme for girls up to 16 or 18. However, my 20yo dd has asked about the jab and no one at her surgery seems to have heard of it.

But Ob, you don't just get HPV from promiscuous sex, you could be trying for a baby with your husband and he might be a carrier. Unless girls plan to be nuns or gay, they need this jab.

Very good idea.

I don't understand the school of thought that says that protecting children from the unwanted side effects of sex will make them rush into reckless sexual activity. No logic there at all.

Totally agree, YoungVisitor. Don't understand your view at all Obobob...

The message this immunisation sends out is that ,we know what causes this cancer ,and we can do something about it, and turn around this epidemic, because we can.

The message is surely, girls are worth it.

The message I give to my dds, is you have the info, you have social awareness (peer pressure etc)I support you and love you but expect you to be responsible in your life.

If girls are not having sex because they are afraid of cancer, that is the wrong reason for not having sex.

Girls need to be fully informed about sex and to make a decision to go ahead or not based on their mature feelings.

Definite yay. I have 3 dds aged 14.8, 13.5 & 2.7 & will happily let all 3 have this jab. I don't think immunising them against this is going to make any difference to when or how they become sexually active. Obviously the 2 older girls have all the info that they need to make their own choices & hopefully have enough sense & self-respect to wait & be responsible. I don't understand why anyone would not want to give it

suedonim-

Private companies are advertising in the papers about this vaccine. I am wary about this ,what vaccine are they using and the costs seem hughly inflated.
So chased around all the groups I mentioned,noone could help, as everyone is waiting for gov anouncements and therefore funding.
Wish I could give you other route. Maybe if enough people ask for it in the surgery they might sort something out .

a big fat yay!

I have had a very close call with cervical cancer, not quite the big c but very dodgy stuff was going on. Despite not having sex until I was 22 and only having 2 bf's I was having chunks of my cervix cut out at 30.

I would not want anyone to go through what I had to deal with. And its not like you can check your own cervix, unlike skin or breast cancer. I hope they jab the boys too eventually.

Obadobobbo

"Where do we stop?"

With vaccines against life threatening deseases, be they sexually7 transmitted or otherwise?

We don't stop. Why should we?

My DD has already had 2 out of the 3 doses. I''ll still be giving her the low-down on sexual health, though.

think it is a very good idea. I will be asking my Gp about this next week. I would do anything to help dd stay healthy and that includes getting any immunisation available.For me it is the same precaution as keeping her covered in factor 30 all summer.

Thanks for that Moyasmum. I'm not in the UK at the moment but by the time I am maybe the surgeries etc will have got themselves organised!

As usual the DoH has made a big announcement without passing any information to GPs and Practice Nurses who presumably will be actually administering the vaccine.
I think it's great and will go a long way towards preventing deaths from a horrible disease.
The vaccine itself is quite expensive-from memory if you pay for the course of 3 vaccines at cost(ie without paying for someone to administer it) it's several hundreds of pounds.