A Cure for HPV? Evaluating HPV Treatment Options
A cure for HPV! Satisfaction guaranteed! No more outbreaks! If you’ve had an HPV diagnosis, you may have seen claims like this in your search for information on the Internet…
Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance
We’re well into the fall season but honestly, this feels like Groundhog Day. This week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published STD surveillance data for 2015 that…
FDA Approves 2-dose Regimen for HPV Vaccine
On October 12th the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a 2-dose schedule for Merck’s Gardasil-9® HPV vaccine for males and females ages 9-14. The new schedule calls for the…
What Women Need to Know about the New World of Cervical Cancer Screening
It used to be very simple—a woman had an annual Pap test. Now, Paps can be done alone or in combination with an HPV test (one HPV test can even…
National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is an annual, nationwide observance that sheds light on the impact of HIV and AIDS on women and girls. The U.S. Department of…
Thoughts Around the CDC STD Surveillance Report
At some point you just want to scream. Last week CDC published STD surveillance data for 2014 that point to the same trends we’ve been worried about for years: 20…
Podcast: Coping with Cervical Cancer
Cancer can be isolating, and it’s easy to see where friends and family members who haven’t personally dealt with cancer—and if they have, probably haven’t dealt with your specific cancer—aren’t…
Podcast: Cervical Cancer Screening
Cervical cancer screening used to all be so simple—women were told just go for your annual Pap. But now we have new tests to screen for cervical cancer, plus updated…
Gynecological Cancer Awareness Month
September is Gynecological Cancer Awareness Month https://youtu.be/UGwd7QfjkbIAccording to the American Cancer Society, it is estimated that this year more than 113,500 women will be diagnosed with a gynecologic cancer and…
Podcast: HPV FAQs
Most sexually active individuals are estimated to have one or more infections in their lifetime with the human papillomavirus (HPV) and, not surprisingly, ASHA receives countless HPV questions: What should…