Other resources

Education Tools

• Activity plan: Health promotion - Human papillomavirus
• HPV Powerpoint Presentation
• sexualityandu.ca Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) flipchart

Scientific Articles / Reports

• National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) Statement on Human Papillomavirus Vaccine (PDF):
  The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) provides the Public Health Agency of Canada with ongoing medical, scientific and public health advice relating to immunization. This comprehensive statement on the HPV vaccine was published in February 2007.
• Canadian Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Research Priorities Workshop (PDF)
  53 candian and international HPV experts and researchers met with academia, public health and industry leaders to examine the status of the HPV vaccine in November 2005.
• ACOG Recommends Initial Ob.Gyn. Visit At Ages 13-15:
  Committee opinion outlines topics, coding. (PDF)
  The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists suggests that health-care practitioners educate young women aged 13-15 on STIs, menses, sexual orientation, healthy eating, and prevention of pregnancy.
• Advances in Prevention of Cervical Cancer and Other Human Papillomavirus-Related Diseases (PDF)
  Published in the The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, this article outlines the issues surrounding the transmission and prevention of HPV.
• Are women ready for the HPV vaccine? (PDF)
  Get the results from the study that asked women if they would consent to the HPV vaccination for themselves, and for their children. Conducted by the Department of Gynecologic Oncology (The University of Texas) and the Anderson Cancer Center (Houston).
• Carcinogenicity of human papillomaviruses (PDF)
  Scientists from 13 counties met at the International Agency for Research on Cancer to reassess the carcinogenicity of human papillomaviruses
• The epidemiology of human papillomavirus infections (PDF)
  Explores HPV prevention, estimates of disease frequency, and risk factors for HPV infection. Also discusses the natural history of HPV infection, including viral persistence versus clearance, immune response, development of lesions and development of cancer.
  

Links

• US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) endorses cervical cancer vaccine (Reuters Health News)
  The FDA's Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices recommends routine use of Gardasil vaccine on females aged 11-26.
• Canadian Association of Provincial Cancer Agencies (CAPCA)
  CAPCA is an interprovincial organization representing provincial/territorial cancer agencies and programs engaged in cancer control.
• Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists
  Directory of medical physicists, whose work varies from hospital diagnostic imaging departments to cancer treatment facilities to hospital-based research.
• Canadian Oncologies Societies
  Founded in 1976, the COS supports public cancer education programs
• Women's Cancer Network
  The WCN helps women living with cancer and their families, understand the disease and gain access to new or experimental therapies.

Public Health Agency of Canada

• Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control (CCDPC)
• CCDPC Cervical Cancer Program
• CCDPC Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines
• Canadian Guidelines on Sexually Transmitted Infections 2006 Edition
• Cancer Screening
• Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control
• Canada Health Network

Guidelines Advisory Committee (Ontario)

• Advancing the Use of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Cervical Cancer Screening

Cervical Cancer guidelines (specifically)

• Guidelines Advisory Committee Cancer Cancer Screening
  
• Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement: Cervical Cytology (Pap Smear) and HPV Testing, Initial Management of Abnormal (Guideline)
  (detailed guidelines in a PDF)