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LAUSD To Offer Female Students HPV Vaccine

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Jul 24, 2006 10:35 am US/Pacific

LAUSD To Offer Female Students HPV Vaccine

LOS ANGELES (CBS) ― The Los Angeles Unified School District plans to offer female students a controversial vaccine that prevents a virus linked to cervical cancer, it was reported Monday.

LAUSD officials told the Los Angeles Times that as the shots become available in the coming months, female students with parental consent would be eligible to receive Gardasil, a vaccine recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration that prevents four types of the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus (HPV). Two types of the virus cause cervical cancer.

An advisory committee of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that all 11- and 12-year-old girls receive the vaccine, along with young women currently ages 13 to 18.

However, some conservative groups have expressed concern that providing the vaccine to adolescent girls would encourage them to engage in sexual behavior.

The vaccine is generally not recommended for older women who may have already been exposed to HPV.

Through the program, Los Angeles County distributes 16 approved vaccines for free to qualified healthcare providers, including 22 school districts, 80 nonprofit community clinics and 44 county health services sites, The Times reported.

(© 2006 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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