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In response to Tips to Decrease Your Cancer Risk posted by tinuviel:

Interesting link. Thanks for the info.

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In response to Tips to Decrease Your Cancer Risk posted by tinuviel:

Some worries and phobias arose during the AIDS entry to the public health scene. Viruses can live within the body for a long time but all the mainstream medical evidence is they can't live long outside the body, on the toilet seat, the bathroom floor, clothing, paperwork etc. And they need to come in contact with an entry point in your body such as a cut.
One can't get 100% guarantee nor 100% public safety.

The vaccine is available to everyone, isn't it? Here, it's free for the target group and if prescribed by a doctor, at subsidised cost to all others. It looks like it's going to be costly in the USA as well as Jamaica. Just because science creates state-of-the-art treatment doesn't mean the hospital can afford it nor the public get it.

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In response to Tips to Decrease Your Cancer Risk posted by redback:

Here's more detail from Merck's press release. As I stated before, the 100% success rate was within the research parameters:
http://www.merck.com/newsroom/press_rele...
and we need to view global % rates carfeully.

I think this is something the World Health Organisation will closely monitor ensuring more effort to its worldwide distribution.

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In response to Tips to Decrease Your Cancer Risk posted by redback:

The unavailablity of Gardasil within many developing countries is a cause for concern. The burden from cervical cancer within this context can be devastating.

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In response to Tips to Decrease Your Cancer Risk posted by P_Al:
Herein lies the global issue related to your article. How do we decrease the risk? At a program level, the $ cost is ultimately met by first-world countries who create the debt then forgive it without removing the poverty trap this causes. At a process level, aid agencies need to start including Gardasil and related items in their repertoire.

Advocacy really needs to start from the ground rather than assume elected officials have it in hand.

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In response to Tips to Decrease Your Cancer Risk posted by redback:

As you alluded to, any preventative program must be multi-dimensional. In addition to what you have said, I would suggest that education and promotion of safe sex practices are crucial in this case. All countries have a responsibility to implement these basic strategies.

The next level includes your suggestions, among others. Dialogue with major pharmaceutical companies is also needed to negotiate lower prices for those who can't afford it. Easier said than done sometimes

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» redback - Tips to Decrease Your Cancer Risk

"...related items in their repertoire..." covered a number of probably endless issues without too much of a 'soapbox' response from me.

(In my "spare" time, I'm known to fire off the odd email. My latest related to our water restrictions and the 78,322 approved unmonitored exceptions to the rule)

Our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is taken for granted but it would be a costly nightmare without it. A cheaper, equally effective approved generic brand appears and the PBS will approve that and not the more expensive.

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In response to Tips to Decrease Your Cancer Risk posted by redback:

Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme"
Sounds interesting. How exactly does this function? Who qualifies for benefits?

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In response to Tips to Decrease Your Cancer Risk posted by P_Al:

The PBS is a taxpayer funded program available to all. A whole raft of medications (but not every) approved under the scheme, are sold at subsidised prices. For example, my anti-cholesterol medication's actual cost to the taxpayer is $46 approx and I pay $30. There is a safety net that once is reached makes the medications much cheaper or free for the rest of the year. If I was a pensioner, I'd only be paying about $4 maximum all the time rather than the $30 mentioned above. All in $AUD.

It only requires the production of a Medicare card and pension card, not private insurance. Legal residents.

The PBS was a target in the Free Trade Agreement with the USA where their powerful pharmaceutical companies wanted to dicate how the PBS should be modified...it wasn't.

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In response to Tips to Decrease Your Cancer Risk posted by redback:

These programs are important for the general public. The goal would be to get a vaccine like Gardasil approved for subsidies. Women in Australia are fortunate in having it available for free.

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