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Last year, many students left school dismayed that the price of the HPV vaccine Gardasil, which remained at the prohibitive cost of $154 per shot at Harvard University Health Services (UHS). We sure did. Last fall, the Harvard HPV Vaccine Awareness Campaign collected over 900 signatures in support of a Harvard-sponsored subsidy for the vaccine to make it more accessible to female students. After meeting with UHS officials, we felt certain that the doctors were committed to student health; yet, we feared that bureaucratic challenges within the Harvard institution would keep us from realizing the goal...
...Nonetheless, we continued to advocate that students be educated about HPV and make an informed choice whether or not to get the vaccine. To judge how much our campus knew about human papillomavirus (HPV), we conducted a survey with undergraduates at the College. The most important conclusion from the study was that cost was by far the biggest barrier to vaccine uptake...
...study published in February this year found that 44.8 percent of all women (sexually active and not) between the ages of 20 and 24 have contracted some form of HPV. Additionally, the occurrence of HPV is greatest in the first few years of sexual activity. College is a freer environment than the one most people grow up in, and therefore it is particularly important to educate people about sexual choices and habits at places like Harvard. While most cases of HPV are harmless and generally clear within two years, this now-cheaper vaccine protects against 70 percent of all cases...
...While we are thrilled with the recent developments at UHS, we cannot help but feel like our work is not yet finished. Our survey last spring found that while 71 percent of Harvard women would happily talk with their friends about HPV and the vaccine, only 38 percent of females had talked with a female physician about it. 37 percent of women surveyed had never had a pap test. In fact, 26 percent of these women did not know where to go if they wanted to get one at Harvard. Pap tests help detect abnormalities early when they?...
After months of lobbying by students for price reductions, Harvard University Health Services (UHS) said yesterday that it would offer the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for $25 per shot. Women under the age of 26 on Harvard’s insurance plan will be able to obtain the vaccine, which has been shown to decrease risk of cervical cancer, at the new price from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. today at a “Gardasil Clinic” in the Holyoke Center. The price drop comes after the Harvard College Women’s Center, the Seneca...