Sentences with phrase «women against cervical cancer»

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According to Health Secretary Andy Burnham, «Jade's bravery and openness in her fight against cervical cancer has brought home to young women across the country the importance of regularly going for these checks.»

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infections cause virtually all cervical cancers, and the researchers stress the need for widespread HPV vaccination to protect women against the virus.

The vaccines protect against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, which kills almost a quarter of a million women worldwide each year.

In human medicine, our growing knowledge about the role of viruses as a cause of certain cancers has led to the development of vaccines as preventives, such as vaccines against human papillomaviruses, the main cause of cervical cancer in women.

Protection against critical illnesses: These plans protect women financially in the event of critical illnesses and women - specific health problems like pregnancy or childbirth - related issues, breast, uterine, ovarian, cervical, fallopian tube, and other such types of cancer.

Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Urges Women and Parents to Protect Against Cervical Cancer This January.

«The HPV vaccine protects young women, men and teens against the human papillomavirus — which can cause cervical, anal, penile and throat cancers — once they become sexually active.

Last week, language was inserted into Ohio's Mid-Biennium Review budget bill that would have restricted Planned Parenthood from federal family planning funds as well as funds from the Violence Against Women Act, the Breast and Cervical Cancer Mortality Prevention Act, the Infertility Prevention Project, and the Minority HIV / ADS Initiative.

They've tried to cut funding in every way possible: by illegally preventing Planned Parenthood health centers from serving patients enrolled in Medicaid, or serving patients through essential programs such as Title X, and they've also gone after our participation in specific initiatives like the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program; the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA); the Minority AIDS Initiative; and STI prevention programs.

This includes not just Medicaid, but the Title X program, Zika prevention programs, HIV prevention grants, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) grants to prevent sexual assault, the CDC National Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening program, maternal and child health programs, STD and infertility prevention grants, and more.