Download FREE FILM SHOWING OF SOMEONE YOU LOVE THE HPV

FREE FILM SHOWING OF SOMEONE YOU LOVE THE HPV EPIDEMIC
Thu, Sep 22, 7:00 PM
Goodrich • Wabash Landing 9, East State Street, West Lafayette, IN
West Lafayette, IN On Thursday, September 22, at 7 p.m., the aware‐winning documentary
SOMEONE YOU LOVE THE HPV EPIDEMIC will be shown at Wabash Landing 9 inWest Lafayette.
Co‐sponsored by the Tippecanoe County Health Department and the League of Women Voters of
Greater Lafayette, the film explores the lives of five women with cervical cancer. A panel discussion
featuring doctors, cancer survivors, and people touched by the affects of a loved‐one with cervical
cancer will follow. The film and program are open free to the public.
SOMEONE YOU LOVE an eighty‐minute 2015 documentary into the lives of five women affected by
HPV, the widely misunderstood and controversial virus that causes several types of cancer, including
cervical. Each of these women has an intimate story to tell.” HPV ‐ Human Papilloma Virus – “may be
the most widespread, misunderstood and potentially dangerous epidemic that most people hardly
know anything about.”
A recent blog (http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/22/the‐underused‐hpv‐vaccine/?hpw&_r=0) by
well‐known New York Times science writer Jane Brody states that HPV “is by far the most common
sexually transmitted infection in the United States” and that “the virus in one or another of its variants
causes more than 90% of cervical cancers.”
There is a vaccine “that prevents infections with cancer causing human papilloma virus” and it is best
given at age 11to 12. “It is currently the most underutilized immunization for children.” Information
about the vaccine will be available at the September 22 film showing.
The League of Women Voters, founded in 1920, is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages
informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public
policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.
(http://www.hpvepidemic.com/#!about/c1oos)
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Source: Amanda Balser, Tippecanoe County Health Dept,423‐9221, [email protected]
Writer: Gretchen Bertolet, 491‐5603, [email protected]
P.O. Box 2085 West Lafayette, IN 47996