Texas Has Offered HPV Vaccine for Years
Gov. Rick Perry's failed 2007 effort to mandate that girls in Texas be inoculated against a cancer-causing, sexually transmitted disease may have haunted him on the presidential campaign trail, but health providers say the state and federal governments' ongoing efforts to keep the HPV vaccine available to poor children for free is preventing thousands statewide from suffering the long-term effects of the STD.
Though the Legislature shot down Perry’s executive order requiring 12-year-old girls to be vaccinated with Gardasil to prevent the transmission of human papillomavirus (HPV), the Department of State Health Services' Texas Vaccines for Children Program ...
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Beverly Nuckols via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The Federal Vaccines for Children doesn't pick and choose - if the vaccine is recommended, it is on the free vaccination list. This is a good vaccine, in my opinion.