| Teen childbearing costs US taxpayers $7 billion each year in direct costs associated with health care, foster care, criminal justice and public assistance. |
| To ensure reproductive health care remains accessible for Wisconsin patients. |
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|  | | In June 2006, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to recommend the first vaccine developed to prevent cervical cancer and other diseases in females caused by certain types of genital human papillomavirus (HPV). The vaccine, Gardasil®, protects against four HPV types, which together cause 70% of cervical cancers and 90% of genital warts.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently licensed this vaccine for use in girls/women, ages 9-26 years. The vaccine is given through a series of three shots over a six-month period. |
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