You know a lot about breast cancer, but what do you know about cervical cancer?

May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment

You know a lot about breast cancer, but what do you know about cervical cancer? Everyone knows about the “one less” ads promoting the Gardasil vaccine, but what do they really know about Human Papamillovirus?

HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection. You can get it from skin-to-skin contact, even if you have protection.

Men can carry the disease but there is no test for them. Most people don’t even show any symptoms of the disease.

A new campaign called Tune In HPV has risen around this issue and has provided a safe space for people to share stories. Our Web site, www.tuneinhpv.com, provides a place to share your story about HPV. It doesn’t matter whether you had the disease, knew someone who had it, or wanted to share something distantly related. We are open to anything that promotes HPV awareness.

We plan on making videos from the submitted stories and posting them on the Web site as well. These videos are short, off beat, humorous at times, and always informational. We hope that visitors will gain knowledge while being entertained by watching our videos. We are not in any way trying to give our medical advice to people, please seek your doctor for that. We are simply here to provide a place for people’s stories.

Our information is supported by the Washington D.C. Department of Health and the Center for Disease Control. Tune in HPV is a grass roots campaign built through the School of Communication at American University by a Communication and Social Change course.

We want to encourage you to “tune in” to the knowledge within you and to protect yourself from HPV. We want to hear what you know, what you’ve experienced, and we want to make you laugh and think.

Be sure and let Giovanna Chesler, our executive producer, know what you think of tuneinhpv.com at chesler@american.edu

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The One4One Campaign

May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment

ASHA is one of many organizations participating in the One4One campaign, a unique program focused on empowering women to help make a difference in the fight against cervical cancer.

The campaign urges women to talk to their healthcare provider about ways they can help protect themselves from cervical cancer, while also raising money to increase cervical cancer information programs and other educational services.

For each woman who pledges to talk to her healthcare provider about cervical cancer via www.One4OnePledge.org between April 24 and June 5, Merck will donate $5, up to $1 million total, to the participating One4One organizations.

The funds raised will be used to provide cervical cancer information programs and other educational services for women across the United States, including women at greater risk of developing the disease due to lack of access to information or healthcare.

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Genital Herpes Clinical Research Study

May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Do you have genital herpes? A clinical research study is being conducted to evaluate an investigational medication for genital herpes. To qualify you must:

Be at least 18 years of age (if you live in Alabama, you must
be at least 19)
Be diagnosed with genital herpes
Have had at least 4 outbreaks in the past year

All study-related examinations, lab tests, and the study medication are provided to qualified participants at no cost. Qualified participants will also receive compensation for time and travel. For more information, please call 1-800-438-5260 or visit www.ashastd.org/trial.cfm.

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