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Women's Health Matters, #30
Thursday, July 27, 2020
This Issue's Topics
- Breakthrough for HPV!
- CONNECT: With the Facts.
With your Health. With your
Community.
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Pharmacy Board Set to Reconsider Harmful Pharmacy Refusal Rule
Breakthrough for HPV!
Last month the Food and Drug Administration
approved a new vaccine, Gardasil, to protect
against particular strains of the Human
Papilloma Virus (HPV) that may lead to
cervical cancer.
Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention's advisory committee
unanimously voted to recommend Gardasil for
11- and 12-year-old girls as a routine
vaccination and for girls and women 13- to
26-years-old as a catch-up.
HPV is an STI that is passed through sexual
contact – which includes vaginal, anal and
oral sex. There are 40 different types of
HPV that are sexually transmitted. Both
women and men can get infected. Most types
of HPV have no symptoms and go away after
time. But some types do not go away and can
lead to cervical cancer, if not discovered
and treated. Some types of HPV can lead to
genital warts in men and women.
There is no cure for HPV. And it is
extremely common to be infected. By age 50,
at least 80 percent of women will have
acquired HPV.
Even if you have already been exposed to HPV
or are infected with it, the vaccine will
still prevent the transmission of the other
types of HPV you are not infected with!
Aradia is currently preparing to provide the
HPV vaccine for women under 26 years old. If
you would like more information on the
vaccine or to find out if you're eligible,
please call our helpful phone counselors at
(206) 323-9388 or 1-(800) 644-9389.
CONNECT: With the Facts. With your
Health. With your Community.
Aradia's Teen Sexual Health Education
Program is Here!
In June 2006, we debuted
CONNECT -
Aradia's newest health education program!
CONNECT, supported by a grant from The
Burning Foundation, combats the growing
trend of STIs and unplanned pregnancies
among young people, and encourages them to
embrace healthy practices, healthy choices
and healthy futures.
CONNECT is primarily an education program
with a series of FREE materials for use by
organizations that work with young people
and by young people themselves!
Pharmacy Board Set to Reconsider Harmful Pharmacy Refusal Rule
The Board is Listening to You!
Citing the 2,450 letters, emails and phone calls that the Pharmacy Board
has received since approving a draft rule at
their June meeting– most of which, according
to Executive Director, Steve Saxe,
overwhelmingly opposed the draft rule – the
board agreed to hold off on proceeding with
that language and opted instead to work on
developing new language that will be
considered at their next meeting in August.
Your letters, phone calls and emails are
working!
As a member of WARC (Washington Alliance for Reproductive Choice), a
coalition of pro-choice organizations at the
forefront of this issue, Aradia would like
to once again encourage you, our supporters,
to write more letters - this time thanking
the Board for listening to the public as
well as urging them to use this opportunity
to develop a new rule that protects
patients.
Below is a draft letter you can send to the
Pharmacy Board:
July 24, 2020
Board of Pharmacy
Department of Health
PO Box 47863
Olympia, WA 98504
RE: Proposed Rule on Pharmacist Refusals
Dear Washington State Board of Pharmacy:
I would like to thank you for slowing down
the rulemaking process and reconsidering
your original proposed rule. I recognize
that there is a difference between an
inability to fill a prescription and a
refusal to do so. Citizens and patients in
Washington want to know that they can get
their prescriptions filled by a pharmacist
without judgment or harassment. Thank you
for reconsidering your harmful rule, and I
hope that you will use this opportunity to
develop new language that will adequately
protect patient’s access to care.
Sincerely, |
