Opening STD Awareness Month with a Success Story: HPV and Cervical Cancer

William Smith

I want to open this STD Awareness Blog series with a STD complication success story: fighting cervical cancer. Because here’s the thing: cervical cancer is almost completely preventable. This means that, given consistent and correct care, you will likely never been one of those 4,000 women who die of this preventable and treatable disease.

How We Can Beat Cervical Cancer

William Smith

In 2007, 12,280 women in the United States were told they had cervical cancer, and 4,021 died from the disease. Here’s the thing: cervical cancer is almost completely preventable.  This means that, given consistent and correct care, you will likely never be one of those 4,000 women who die of this preventable and treatable disease.

CDC Center Not Dead but There Will Be Cuts

William Smith

Late last night, the details of the of the House Fiscal Year 2011 spending agreement were posted by House Republicans. Their chart appeared to completely zero out all activities of the CDC-NCHHSTP. Thankfully the news is not quite that bad.