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HPV Op Out Form

GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Department of Health Information about Human Papillomavirus and Vaccination and Vaccine Refusal Form for Students at District of Columbia Public, Charter, Private and Parochial Schools Instructions for completing HPV Vaccine Refusal Certificate Section 1: Enter student information Section 2: Have parent/guardian or student (if > 18 years of age) initial, sign and date after reading Vaccine Information Statement (s) Name of School Section 1: Student Information Student Name: Date of Birth: ...

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Is HPV Vaccine to Blame for a Teen's Paralysis

Is HPV Vaccine to Blame for a Teen's Paralysis? A father desperately searches for answers as his daughter nears death. By Deborah Kotz | Contributor July 2, 2008, at 4:41 p.m. About a month after being vaccinated against the cervical cancer-causing HPV virus, 13-year-old Jenny Tetlock missed the lowest hurdle in gym class, the first hint of the degenerative muscle disease that, 15 months later, has left the previously healthy teenager nearly completely paralyzed. Did the vaccine, Gardasil, cause her condition? Her father, Philip Tetlock, a psychology professor at UC-Berkeley's Haas...

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Abstinence Proponents Want Say in HPV Vote

           Local Abstinence Proponents Want Say in HPV Vote       (Ultra Teen Choice)Richard Urban, co-founder of Ultra Teen Choice, gestures in a training class with teens. Urban believes the City is sending the wrong message by offering to give vaccines to teens to prevent the spread of the HPV virus. Jonetta Rose Barras, The ExaminerMar 8, 2007 3:00 AM (1 day ago) WASHINGTON - D.C. Council Member David Catania, at large, promises that his Committee on Health will vote in the next week on the Human Papillomavirus Vaccination and Reporting Act of 2007. HPV, a sexually...

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We Need a Revolution of Abstinence-Centered Education

As of 2021, 40% of births in the United States were outside of marriage.  However, this does not tell the whole story. For white women, the rate of out of wedlock birth is 28%, for Hispanic women, 53% and for black women 70% (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/unmarried-childbearing.htm).  Arguably, this is the greatest factor causing racial disparities in child welfare and overall family well-being. To break the generational cycle of outside of wedlock birth, we need a revolution of abstinence-centered education. Parents should present the expectation of sexual abstinence before marriage...

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