A few weeks ago, President Joe Biden and the leaders of Australia, India, and Japan gathered at Biden’s home in Delaware to announce to much fanfare “the Quad Cancer Moonshot Initiative,” which aims to reduce cervical cancer in the Indo-Pacific region by helping countries achieve the World Health Organization’s recommendation for vaccinating 90% of girls with the highly effective and safe HPV vaccine.
The vaccine, approved by the WHO in 2009, eliminates the human papilloma virus, which is the leading cause of cervical cancer. The vaccine is a scientific triumph — a silver bullet that could, single-handedly, virtually end one of the most common and deadly forms of cancer.
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Author: Fengting Yan, Binay Shah, and Siddhartha Yadav
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