A Pop Quiz that Can Save Your Adolescent Child’s Life

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What’s the most common sexually transmitted infection? What can cause genital warts or cervical, penis, and anus cancer? What can be prevented with a simple vaccine?

Answer: HPV (the human papillomavirus).

That’s why a new program is educating people about HPV and helping them make and remember HPV vaccination appointments for girls and boys ages 11-17 in South Texas.

The program, called Entre Familia, uses promotoras—trained community health workers—to deliver education and services, led by researchers at the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio in partnership with Nuestra Clínica del Valle in South Texas and the Colonias Program at Texas A&M University.

Entre Familia raises awareness about the importance of the HPV vaccine and seeks to increase the numbers of youth in South Texas who start and complete the three-dose HPV vaccine in a region of South Texas that faces a high burden of cervical and other cancers,” said Dr. Daisy Morales-Campos, an IHPR researcher who directs the program with researcher Dr. Deborah-Parra-Medina and project coordinator Vicky Morales.

Read the Entre Familia program’s flyer about HPV and the HPV vaccine in English or Spanish.

To learn about the program, go here.

“We think Entre Familia will go a long way in demystifying just what HPV is and what the HPV vaccine can do to protect girls and boys,” Morales-Campos said.

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