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Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on discuss the potential health and economic impact of adding human papillomavirus vaccine (hpv) to existing screening programs. Even though the presence of HPV infection alone is not enough to trigger the development of cervical cancer and anogenital cancers (i.e. cancer of the vagina, vulva, penis and anus), Atkinson, Wolfe and Hamborsky (139) explained that women who are infected with HPV 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 68, 69, 73 and 82 are at risk of developing cervical cancer. Among these oncogenic genotypes, HPV 16 and 18 are responsible in almost 70% of cervical cancer around the world (Atkinson, Wolfe and Hamborsky 139. Murthy and Smith 315). Almost all of the HPV infections are asymptomatic. It means that the human body is capable of healing itself without much human intervention. In general, HPV vaccine is ineffective among HPV infected individuals. For this reason, pharmaceutical manufacturers of HPV vaccines are targeting boys and girls between the age of 9 to 26 who has never been infected with HPV (Gardasil). Sold in the market since 2006, the two types of HPV vaccines that prevents at least four types of HPV non-asymptomatic (i.e. HPV 16 and 18 – causes cervical cancer and HPV 6 and 11 – causes 90% of genital wards) are known as Gardasil1 and Cervarix2 (Atkinson, Wolfe and Hamborsky 139. Murthy and Smith 315).