Background and Significance: The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the United States. Currently, approximately 79 million people in the United States are infected with HPV. The CDC estimates that there are nearly 31,500 cases o…
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Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the most common sexually transmitted infection worldwide. Several studies have shown its involvement in the etiology of virtually all cancers of the cervix, which is a major health problem in poor countries. HPV is also responsible for 90%…
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a causative agent in cervical cancer development and commercial sex workers (CSW) are at high risk for exposure to STDs, including HPV. From October 1994-January 1998, CSW and non-CSW were interviewed, cervical swabs were taken for HPV DNA testing, …
Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among women in Nigeria, with the morbidity statistics from cervical cancer growing exponentially each year. Guided by the health belief model, the goals of this quantitative, nonexperimental, and cross-sectional study …
Background. Almost 4 million U.S. women will have abnormal Pap tests this year, yet rates for follow-up care are not ideal. Patient-provider communication about abnormal results influences women's understanding of abnormal results and whether women return for timely follow-up ca…
Human papillomavirus (HPV) related cervical cancer is still the most common gynaecological malignancy in developing countries and, as yet, there is no alternative to surgery for the treatment of HPV-associated pre-malignant lesions. HPV 'hijacks' the host-cell ubiquitin-proteaso…
The development of a vaccine against some strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) has led to many interesting public health questions [1]. We address some of these questions in the following work. We develop a compartmental mathematical model and examine the effect of waning i…
HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the U.S. Approximately 14 million of people will be infected with HPV this year and 79 million people currently have HPV in the U.S. In 2011, in the United States, there were 4,092 deaths and 12,109 women died of cervical …
BACKGROUND: Though significant gains have been made in preventing cervical cancer over the past 30 years, it continues to cause morbidity and mortality among women in the United States, particularly among those women who are screened infrequently or not at all. More than half of…