New HPV Study Prompts Consumer Fears, Questions

A new study that was published by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and that was based upon facts and reports that were released for 2010 by the Center for Disease Control (CDC), has spurred some fears about the newest vaccine for HPV for young girls, Gardisol, and others that are currently in the making.

The study, which was published in the popular on National Science Foundation’s website (at: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=116186&org=NSF&from=news), cites as follows.

“A new study concludes that people tend to match their risk perceptions about policy issues with their cultural values, which may explain the intense disagreement about proposals to vaccinate elementary-school girls against human-papillomavirus (HPV). The study also says people's values shape their perceptions of expert opinion on the vaccine.

HPV is a widespread disease that, when sexually transmitted, can cause cervical cancer. In October of 2009, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that the vaccine be given to all girls ages 11 or 12. However, the recommendation has been mired in controversy, and so far adopted in only one state and the District of Columbia.

An online experiment involving more than 1,500 U.S. adults reveals that individuals who have cultural values that favor authority and individualism perceive the vaccine as risky, in part because they believe it will lead girls to engage in unsafe sex. But individuals with cultural values that favor gender equality and pro-community/government involvement in basic health care are more likely to see the vaccine as low risk and high benefit.

The study was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is being published online this week in the journal Law and Human Behavior. It found that people exposed to unattributed, balanced information about HPV vaccines tended to produce something called "biased assimilation," a phenomenon in which culturally-identifiable groups draw opposing conclusions and become more divided rather than less divided as they consider evidence.

But when biased assimilation was compared to another survey result, researchers were surprised. "An even bigger effect for all subjects was the perceived values of experts," said Yale University law professor Dan Kahan referring to another part of the experiment in which arguments about the vaccine were matched with fictional experts.

Researchers designed fictional, but culturally identifiable advocates to be seen by respondents as holding opposing and culturally distinct values. The researchers devised the "advocates" to be seen as holding pro-authority and individualistic, or pro-community and pro-equality worldviews.

When views about HPV vaccines came from sources respondents believed shared their values, individuals tended to be more willing to accept the information. But when it came from an expert whom they perceived held values different from theirs, the information was not accepted. In the first instance, respondents perceived the experts to have cultural credibility and trustworthiness, but when respondent values differed from the experts, the experts were perceived to lack cultural credibility.”

Will there ever be hope for a real vaccine for HPV that works effectively to defeat and combat all forty some-odd identified strains that cause cervical cancer in women and that can grow into genital warts and anal warts in both men and women?

Furthermore, we ask, what about men?

When will there, if ever, be an HPV vaccination for men?

Have we all been left out in the dust?

Currently there are few treatment options, and there are not even really tests for HPV in men.

However, there are ways that you can naturally boost your body’s immune system by using daily supplements and HPV holistic remedies that may not entirely eradicate the virus, but that can send it packing its bags into nearly permanent remission by allowing your body to naturally clear the virus.

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