{"id":813,"date":"2012-08-15T11:24:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T11:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.better2know.co.uk\/?p=813"},"modified":"2024-02-23T13:29:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T13:29:31","slug":"research-on-hpv-immunisation-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/research-on-hpv-immunisation-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Research on HPV immunisation programme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UK is currently immunising all girls against HPV (the virus which can cause cervical cancer and genital warts), and has recently changed the vaccine to Gardasil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/lab-test-2-2-1024x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7771\" width=\"768\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/lab-test-2-2-1024x518.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/lab-test-2-2-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/lab-test-2-2-768x388.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/lab-test-2-2-1536x777.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/lab-test-2-2-2048x1036.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Joint Committee on Vaccine and Immunisation (JCVI) has announced its intention to fund research into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dh.gov.uk\/health\/2012\/08\/jcvi-hpv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HPV immunisation programme<\/a> with a new call to look at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>whether 2 doses is sufficient (3 are currently given)<\/li><li>whether those who the vaccine is given to should be widened particularly men who have sex with men (MSM)<\/li><li>increasing the number of HPVs the vaccine programme can protect against<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Gardasil protects against 4 different types of HPV virus, but there are over 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Better2Know offers the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/std-sti-testing\/vaccines_gardasil_hepatitis-a_hepatitis-b\">Gardasil vaccine<\/a> to both men and women of all ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK is currently immunising all girls against HPV (the virus which can cause cervical cancer and genital warts), and has recently changed the vaccine to Gardasil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[23,21,14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2867,620,644,2544,626,639],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8044,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/8044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}