American Cancer Society Partners with the Lance Armstrong Foundation to Show Support of HPV Vaccine Commitment

On October 30, The Washington Post highlighted a collaborative effort between the American Cancer Society and the Lance Armstrong Foundation in an opinion piece co-authored by John Seffrin, PhD, chief executive officer of the American Cancer Society, and Lance Armstrong, cancer survivor and chairman of the Lance Armstrong Foundation. In the piece, Dr. Seffrin and Mr. Armstrong urged delegates of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) to vote “yes” at a recent meeting to making HPV vaccines available to girls in the 72 poorest developing countries. The piece stressed the need for vaccines and appropriate screening technologies in these developing countries, where cervical cancer remains the number one cause of cancer deaths among women, and asserted that data is available to prove that providing HPV vaccines to these countries is affordable, feasible, and necessary. Due to resource mobilization issues encountered during the meeting, the vote was postponed until the next meeting, which will take place in early spring; however, proponents of this commitment remain hopeful that the strong arguments made in this opinion piece, among others, will persuade GAVI members to commit to the vaccine. The opinion piece can be found on the Washington Post Web Site, click here Opinion piece to navigate directly to it.

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[Birendra]

Hi Frank: Please simply eihetr print out and copy the email you received, or copy and print the text from malecare.org/blue We don't have fliers to send out, but if we did, it would be the same text as above. Thanks for your support on this!