The Government plan to roll out school sex clinics after a pilot in schools in Bristol . A BBC web report named three professionals with vested interests in teen sex supporting it, and one schoolgirl.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/health/newsid_7446000/7446370.stm

This morning, Lutterworth Grammar School was reported as having handed out 345 morning-after pills behind parents’ backs:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1026600/

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said today:

‘It won’t be hard to find school children who will welcome this idea, and the teen sex industry will be loving it.

‘It is both irresponsible and arrogant of schools to interfere in children’s intimate lives and to encourage them into illicit premature sexual activity.

‘The sort of peculiar people who get a buzz out of encouraging school children into adolescent sex should not be allowed anywhere near them.

‘Schools have no business bringing in sexual health workers, who don’t know the children and care about them even less, to go behind parents’ backs. There was an outcry when Melissa Smith had an abortion in Mansfield with out the knowledge of her mother, who had to pick up the pieces afterwards. Yet Melissa would not have been allowed to take a paracetamol without her mother’s say-so. How many other children are being betrayed by schools like Melissa was?

‘Studies show that teenagers are notoriously bad at using contraceptives properly. And even if they do, condoms are pathetic at preventing sexually-transmitted diseases. We shall see an increase in teenage pregnancies and abortions unless the morning-after pill gets the government out of that hole, and it is certain that more young people, boys as well as girls, will end up infertile or bearing life-long genital diseases.

‘As the Governments’ targets all centre around pregnancy, no-one in the corridors of power cares if children become infertile through diseases like Chlamydia. They may even welcome it.

‘There is a vast industry now dependent upon getting teenagers using contraceptives. There is no money in chastity. Saving sex for marriage is the one message children need to hear and the only one the Government refuses to bring.

‘It is odd the way we devote even more effort teaching children to say ‘yes’ to sex than we do to getting them to say ‘no’ to smoking and drugs.

‘This policy will leave misery in its wake.’

ENDS

This nation is so obsessed with encouraging teenagers to be promiscuous that it clutches at any straw which appears to facilitate that.  Couple that with the corporate greed which drives the drug industry’s marketing of its pharmaceutical products and it is easy to see why the new anti-HPV vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, have been welcomed as the latest new dawn of a sexually-liberated day, the things which will keep our kids fornicating in safety.

The trouble is, they won’t.  Vaccines are not without danger. One health-care company offering the Gardasil vaccine also supplies the single mumps, measles and rubella vaccines, responding to parents’ legitimate concerns about MMR.  (Did Leo Blair ever have the MMR?  His dad wouldn’t say.)

And will the message that women still need to go for screening pierce the fog of hype about vaccination?  The vaccines could be spreading false hope and more promiscuity and result in more sexually-transmitted disease of all kinds and more deaths from cervical cancer, not fewer.  And that is without the safety concerns about side effects of the vaccines themselves.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has recommended – and the Government has accepted – that all girls should be given the jab in the first year of secondary school starting from September 2008 with a catch-up campaign to vaccinate all girls aged 12-18

The vaccine costs more than £300 for a series of three doses, more than all the other childhood vaccinations put together. By comparison, the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine costs about £12 for two doses.

The cost will be more than £100m a year for all the 12-year-old girls, and well over £500m – that’s half-a-billion pounds – to play catch-up with girls up to 18 in the first year.  Sanofi Pasteur Merck Sharp & Dohme, who make Gardasil, and Glaxo Smith Kline, manufacturers of the rival vaccine Cervarix, will be bidding for the Government contract to supply the vaccines.  There is a lot of money at stake.

In October 2005, when the story broke in the UK , the vaccines were hailed as a ‘wonder drug’ which would end the need for smear tests.  Pamela Morton, director of the cervical cancer charity Jo’s Trust, said: “The successful development of a vaccine that will prevent cervical cancer cannot come soon enough.”

Jo’s Trust had emerged as a strong proponent of vaccination, and their voice, as a patients’ group, carried weight.  Suddenly, we find Glaxo Smith Kline funding Jo’s Trust to the tune of £11,400 in the very next year, 2006.

We are still trying to find out how much GSK have paid Jo’s Trust to date in 2007.  Jo’s trust is also part-funded by Sanofi Pasteur Merck Sharp & Dohme, so we have the two drug companies who are in the running for an HPV-virus vaccine contract being the same two drug companies who are giving money to the patients’ support group lobbying for HPV-virus vaccination.

Jo’s Trust itself is very cagey about just how much money it receives from the two drug vaccine companies.  www.jotrust.co.uk (click on ‘who we are’) merely says:   ‘Jo’s Trust, in 2006 only, received an unrestricted educational grant and support in kind from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). The trust did not receive any unrestricted educational grants from Sanofi Pasteur MSD (SPMSD) but it did receive support in kind.’

Neither Jo’s Trust nor Sanofi Pasteur Merck Sharp & Dohme will say how much the latter has given the former, despite SPMSD’s communications manager hilariously telling this author their funding is ‘transparent’.  We have in fact challenged Jo’s Trust to detail all their income from drug companies and other corporate sources.  But the GSK funding alone is 9% of the charity’s income, and £2,500 of it enabled Jo’s Trust to put on a ‘Parliamentary Breakfast’ last year.  It would be no surprise to find that Jo’s Trust pushed hard for vaccination at that lobbying event.

But despite the hype, neither Gardasil (that’s the Merck Sharp and Dohme one) nor Cervarix (Glaxo Smith Kline) is a ‘wonder drug’ as hailed just two years ago.  The maximum protection is against 70% of the viruses which cause cervical cancer, so neither drug is any more than 70% effective.  All women will have to carry on with screening even after being vaccinated. (See Q&A: Cervical cancer vaccine.)

‘…vaccination does not substitute for routine cervical cancer screening’ say Merck, and it ‘may not result in protection in all vaccine recipients.’

Of course if those proposing the vaccine were that serious about preventing HPV, they would recommend giving the vaccine to boys as well, who as carriers are obviously 50% of the problem.  But the typical male reaction is that this is a ‘women’s issue’.  James Whale perfectly articulated this view on TalkSport Radio on 25th June 2007 .  ‘Boys don’t get cervical cancer’ so why should they have to be vaccinated, he asked.  Of course, from the Government’s point of view, vaccinating boys would double the cost – or embarrass them when take-up was miniscule.

Now we turn to the side effects.  It took a Freedom of Information Act request in the United States of America to winkle out that Gardasil had been implicated in deaths of 3 women and 1,637 adverse reactions (May 2007).

371 of those reactions were serious, one of the deaths was within hours of having the vaccine and there have been foetal abnormalities as well.

Although Gardasil is available in the States, the adverse reactions have stalled Merck’s hopes of USA-wide compulsory vaccination.

Such is the hysteria for mass vaccination in the UK , for a long time, only the Daily Express had mentioned the possibility of side effects. (See ‘12-Year-Olds Will be Given Anti-Cancer Vaccine‘.)

In The Scotsman, it was left to a lone blogger to mention the problems at the end of a typically sycophantic article. See ‘Schoolgirls in Scotland to be vaccinated with cervical cancer drug.’

Up to October 2007, no British newspaper had headlined the associated deaths and adverse reactions with the exception of Metro, the free sheet which is part of the Daily Mail stable.  Metro also carried the obligatory complacent response from the Department of Health’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. See ‘Cancer jab implicated in deaths of women.‘

But now the Daily Telegraph has highlighted the problems. See ‘Cervical cancer drug Gardasil linked to deaths.‘

And the same paper has also pointed out that no study has yet shown 12-year-old girls are protected for longer than five years. See ‘Concerns raised over girls’ cervical cancer jab.‘

Meanwhile, the Sunday Express reported at the end of October 2007 on shocking side effects after vaccination in the United States , including eight deaths among the 3,500 adverse reactions. See ‘Eight Deaths Linked to Labour’s New Sex Jab for Schoolgirls.‘

We saw earlier that despite vaccination, women will still need to be screened, but the Daily Mail has now carried an article about a new screening method which actually detects the virus itself, enabling much earlier and more reliable diagnosis.

It seems women commentators in the USA are not exactly falling over each over to express delight in Gardasil like their counterparts in Britain.

Elsewhere, sites are pointing out that the vaccine has traces of Aluminium and that it has not been proven totally safe.

On the testing background, Phase II trials were on just 552 women aged 16-23, and the follow-up was only 2-and-a-half years.  Merck are concerned enough about the possibility of consequent foetal abnormalities to be monitoring births of women having the vaccine. See ‘Gardasil HPV Vaccine Reduced Infection and Disease in New Clinical Study.‘

1,529 adolescent boys and girls aged 10-15 were in another trial of Gardasil. Results looking at anti-bodies are good, but no follow-up time has been reported to look for long-term adverse effects, including any carcinogenic problems. (See, ‘Merck’s HPV Vaccine Produces Stronger Immune Response in Girls, Boys Than Women, Study.‘)

Phase III trials have just completed on 12,167 women aged 16-26, of whom half (just over 6,000) were given the vaccine in a three-dose regimen over six months.  The follow-up has been just three years.

The mantra has been: ‘young people are gong to have sex anyway, so let’s just make it as safe as we can for them’.  Do we say ‘young people are going to smoke /get smashed on drink / climb onto railway lines anyway, so let’s just make it as safe as we can for them’?  No, we don’t.  So why the exception for sex?  It must be that some people out there – women of a certain age running family-planning clinics and some peculiar secularist men – get a perverse vicarious pleasure in the thought of teenagers being sexually active.

We even dress little girls like tarts and then wonder why some men draw the obvious conclusion.

In the real world there is a sexual health crisis amongst the young, with something like 10% of young people infected with Chlamydia, the disease which causes infertility.

The secularists and ‘family planners’ might care to explain their part in the sexually-liberated new dawn to those young people which it has left unable to have children of their own.

Sorry, people, it might offend against your liberal prejudices, but chastity is the only lifestyle which will protect against STD’s. Not condoms, not any number of inadequately-tested jabs, not more sex education, nothing except chastity and fidelity.

But unlike vaccines, medicines and contraceptives, there’s no money in chastity, so don’t expect the professionals to flock around supporting it.

In a recent meeting with officials from the Governments’ Teenage Pregnancy Unit, Christian campaigners raised the point about infertility, only to be told: ‘But this is the Teenage Pregnancy Unit.  We aren’t concerned with infertility here.’

Indeed, as the Government’s teenage sex targets all revolve around teen pregnancy, don’t expect them to be that bothered about infertility in the young.  In fact, it’s a horrible thought, but they might well be pleased, because infertile young people aren’t going to figure in the pregnancy statistics, are they?

What a dysfunctional, disease-ridden, fornicating society we live in, made even worse by the fact that some actually like it this way.

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The UK Charity spearheading the campaign for vaccinating schoolgirls against the virus which causes cervical cancer has today been challenged to reveal all corporate sources of its funding after threatening a Christian organisation with legal action.

The challenge came after Christian Voice reported on Friday that Jo’s Trust received £11,400 in 2006 from Glaxo Smith Kline, who manufacture the vaccine ‘Cervarix’.

The Jo’s Trust website admits to receiving ‘an unrestricted educational grant’ from Glaxo and ‘support in kind’ from both Glaxo and Sanofi Pasteur Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), who make Gardasil, in 2006, but no specific sums are given.

When the National Director of Christian Voice rang Pamela Morton, director of Jo’s Trust, to verify the amounts involved in 2006 and 2007, she refused to say and threatened legal action over our reporting.

However, the corporate responsibility section of the GlaxoSmithKline website lists a £1,600 donation to Jo’s Trust for presentations at internal GSK meetings, a £5,000 ‘medical fellowship award’ for ‘IT and communications’, £1,300 so Jo’s Trust could attend an international conference on cervical cancer in Paris and a £2,500 ‘medical fellowship award’ to support a Parliamentary Breakfast at the House of Commons on ‘the burden and future prevention of cervical cancer’.

Jo’s Trust has emerged as the leading proponent for vaccines against cervical cancer, calling for all secondary schoolgirls to be immunised, at a possible cost to the Exchequer of half a billion pounds for the vaccines alone.

The vaccines, which act against certain strains of Human Papilloma Virus, thought to cause both cervical cancer and genital warts, are said to prevent around 70% of cervical cancers. Concerns are however being raised about virus mutation which could increase the 30% of cancers unprotected, the cost-effectiveness of the vaccines, which cost £300 per person, 25 times the cost of MMR, and about their long-term efficacy and safety, in the absence of any long-term trials.

Severe side effects have also been reported in trials on Gardasil, which is currently in the market for the lucrative Government contract. These included three deaths.

Oddly, apart from mentioning the need for continued screening in those vaccinated, there appears to be nothing negative about either Gardasil or Cervarix on the Jo’s Trust website. A webpage on the site www.jotrust.co.uk written by Professor Alison Flander and Dr Amanda Tristram of Cardiff University has no mention whatsoever of any reported side effects in the trials of the vaccines. The question is not even raised, let alone answered.

In its 2006 accounts, Cardiff University acknowledged grants, gifts and donations from a number of companies, including Glaxo Smith Kline and Merck Sharp and Dohme.

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said today:

‘It is difficult to understand why Jo’s Trust, which has been such an effective promoter of anti-HPV vaccines, should not be totally upfront about the financial support it receives from the pharmaceutical industry.

‘The absence of openness and the point-blank and bad-tempered refusal of the Trust’s Director to be candid about the sums involved makes it possible to draw uncomfortable conclusions. Threats of legal action over disclosure of this story do not help Jo’s Trust’s position. Christian Voice will not be swayed by attempts at intimidation from reporting on a legitimate matter of public interest.

‘As a self-help and support group, Jo’s Trust is probably doing good work. But they have taken the wrong road on the vaccine issue. Even after vaccination, women will still have to go for screening, and the exciting development of a new test for the HPV virus itself means screening will be more effective at preventing cervical cancer. Vaccination is beginning to look like yesterday’s expensive technology.

‘I am sure the Jo’s Trust volunteers, many of whom will have personal stories to tell of battling with cervical cancer, generate most of Jo’s Trust’s money through fund-raising in the community. Nevertheless, questions remain about the rest. I now call on Jo’s Trust to disclose all donations and the value of payments in kind they have received from companies and other funding bodies.

‘However, I must say that taking money from the pharmaceutical industry was a grave error of judgment in the first place. It has destroyed any image of impartiality in Jo’s Trust when its people speak on prevention of cervical cancer. The drug companies will be delighted to have a patients’ group lobbying for their vaccines, but the giving of grants and benefits inevitably raises questions about that group’s independence. If it had been me, I would not have taken a penny-piece from them.’

Paul Hardiman, Communications Manager of Sanofi Pasteur MSD, said “our sponsorship (of Jo’s Trust) is transparent and adheres to the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)’s Code of Practice. ” To date, he has failed to disclose, even when pressed, the exact amounts of Sanofi Pasteur MSD’s transparent funding.

Glaxo Smith Kline’s Communications Manager, David Daley, confirmed the company’s 2006 funding of Jo’s Trust. We were waiting to hear from him about amounts paid and promised in 2007 as we went to press.

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The decision by the Government to vaccinate schoolgirls against some of the viruses which cause cervical cancer has been condemned by a Christian prayer and lobby group.

Christian Voice has also found links between one of the drug companies involved and the cancer charity – Jo’s Trust – at the forefront of the vaccination campaign.

Christian Voice points out that no vaccine is effective against more than 70% of strains of the Human Papilloma Virus, the main cause of cervical cancer and genital warts.  The group also says that the message that women will still have to go for screening will be lost, along with the lives of some who think they are totally protected.

Indeed, as many will think they have more protection than they have, the vaccine will encourage promiscuity, lower the use of condoms, which are not 100% effective against disease anyway, and lead to more teenage pregnancy and more sexually-transmitted disease.

At £300 for a course, twenty-five times the cost of the equally-controversial MMR, administering the vaccine will be an expensive exercise in futility, the group suggests.  The main beneficiary will not be women, but drug multinationals Merck, who make Gardasil and Glaxo-Smith-Kline (GSK), manufacturers of Cervarix.

Cervical cancer charity Jo’s Trust, which is funded by GSK, has welcomed the announcement of a nation-wide programme of vaccination in secondary schools, as if Gardasil and Cervarix are perfectly safe and 100% effective ‘wonder drugs’, which they are not.

Given that the desperation to get the vaccine licensed means that there have been no long-term follow-up studies, and we could be lining women up for medical problems, Christian Voice has warned.

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said today:

‘Although the Government have said that parents will have the final say about whether their daughters are vaccinated, I expect school health outreach workers from Primary Care Trusts and the like will be giving these vaccines to young girls behind their parents’ backs.

‘Since the vaccine works best before the onset of sexual activity, they will be treating these girls, to put it bluntly, like tarts, saying they expect them to be sexually incontinent, lacking in self-respect and the basic morality required to keep their virginity.

‘The message is one of despair, disrespect and low expectations. Anyone giving this drug to a girl is telling her: “I think you are a slag”.

‘It could be objected that as men are carriers of Human Papilloma Virus, a woman who marries as a virgin can catch HPV from her husband if he has slept around before marrying.  That only reinforces our message to stay a virgin and marry a virgin.  But the logic of the objection demands the vaccine also be given to schoolboys, which the Government will not do because it would double the cost if there was maximum take-up, and embarrass them if boys and their parents said ‘This is a women’s disease, why bother?’  The drugs have been tested on men and boys but not even to the limited extent that they have on women.

‘But the vaccination will inevitably raise promiscuity, teenage pregnancy and, worst of all, infertility. Young women will be thinking they have more protection than they actually have. The benefits will be talked up to encourage take-up and the negatives, like the mere 70% effectiveness, the adverse reactions, including deaths, and the lack of any long-term follow-up downplayed.  The continued need to go for screening is a subject which will be finessed or even avoided.

Hardy anyone will bother to warn girls that they are not protected against other sexually-transmitted diseases.  Certainly, no-one will be honest enough to say that even condoms offer barely any protection against sexually-transmitted diseases either. Chlamydia, which causes infertility, is already affecting one in ten teenagers. That figure is set to rise as a result of Gardasil, and infertility will rise with it.

‘I have a horrible feeling that as all the targets to do with teenage sexual activity are based around pregnancy, those in power will actually be pleased if more young people become infertile, because they won’t figure in the pregnancy statistics.

‘The best way of not getting cervical cancer and genital warts is to stay a virgin and marry a virgin. Why don’t these officials want young people to do that? Why don’t we raise their expectations and ours and treat them with some respect?  Could it be that there is no money in it?’

‘Even the cervical cancer charity Jo’s Trust is getting almost 10% of its money from Glaxo Smith Kline.  Of course they will be in favour of the vaccines.’

‘I have a nagging feeling that Gardasil is going to leave misery in its wake.’

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The suggestion from a Government-funded advisory group that compulsory sex education and advertising condoms on TV will reduce teenage pregnancies and sexually-transmitted diseases was dismissed as ‘laughable’ today by a Christian prayer and lobby group.

The report, from the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV, said recent government campaigns had failed to recognise the link between drink, drugs and sexual health. The document also blamed the media for glamorising celebrity excesses.

Consequently, teenagers in the UK face a “sexual health crisis” fuelled by alcohol, drugs and risky sexual behaviour. They are “defining their lifestyle” by behaviour encouraged by celebrity culture, the Advisory Group said. The increase in sexually-transmitted infections and high teenage pregnancy rates are “disturbing”, it says.

Sexual Health Crisis

Professor Mark Bellis, head of the centre for public health at Liverpool John Moores University and one of the authors of the report, called the link between alcohol, drugs and risky sexual behaviour “fuel for a sexual health crisis”.

The Advisory Group, which is funded by the Department of Health, and has a membership drawn largely from the family-planning and homosexual health industry, also points out that the UK has the highest rates of teenage pregnancy and sexual infections in Europe.

The UK came bottom of a table of 21 countries in a recent Unicef analysis of child wellbeing. It showed British children had the highest incidence of risk-taking behaviour. More had had sexual intercourse by 15 than in any other country, more had been drunk two or more times aged 11-15, and they were the third highest users of cannabis. Over the past 12 years, chlamydia infections had increased by 300%, gonorrhoea by 200%, HIV by 300% and syphilis by 2,000%. “In a single act of unprotected sex with an infected partner, adolescent girls have a 1% chance of acquiring HIV, a 30% chance of getting genital herpes and a 50% chance of contracting gonorrhoea,” the report said.

Platitudes and Failed Already

But when it comes to recommending action, the report sways between the platitudinous and the failed-already. It urges the Government to ‘reduce drug taking and alcohol consumption among young people’ and calls for compulsory sex education (PSHE) in schools.

The chairman of the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV, Baroness Gould, currently President of the Family Planning Association (FPA), and who is a leading campaigner for ever-easier access to abortion, even suggested making condoms more readily available to young people and allowing unrestricted TV adverts for them.

In a statement the Department of Health said the issue of sexual health has been one of its ‘top priorities’ and recent statistics showed the lowest levels of teenage pregnancies since 1993.

Laughable

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said today:

‘The Advisory Group has reported on one of the greatest problems our society faces but its recommendations are laughable. There is a shocking epidemic of teenage pregnancy and increasingly of sexually-transmitted diseases and consequent infertility. But to suggest that more and even compulsory school sex education will help reduce teenage pregnancy and sexually-transmitted disease is like suggesting paraffin will put out a fire. The more sex education you have, the more teens want to try out the enticing bits of what they have learned. But every study shows that they are lousy at using contraceptives.

‘Even if they were brilliant at putting on condoms, sexual health experts know these are nowhere near as effective as they are claimed to be by campaigners like Baroness Gould.

‘As to advertising condoms on TV, that will send out precisely the sort of mixed message of which Lady Gould complains, unless the message she intends to convey is ‘Get fornicating, kids; everyone else is.’

‘It is facile to attack the media for reporting on celebrity tarts and drunks. If the celebs were not so irresponsible, there would be nothing to report. And the rot starts at the head. Those in line to the Throne are among the worst at encouraging drinking and irresponsible sex. If Prince William and Prince Harry behaved like Christian gentlemen, a challenging standard would be set which would be bound to filter down.

‘The Department of Health’s response is just complacent. Yes, the teen pregnancy stats went down in 2005, but as the Government’s targets are all based on teenage pregnancy, no-one cares how many kids, girls especially, are becoming infertile through Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea. And those diseases, and Herpes and HPV even more so, go right round the condoms the advertising of which Lady Gould thinks will solve the problem.

‘Baroness Gould herself is Labour lobby-fodder in the House of Lords. She was a strong supporter of the Sexual Orientation Regulations, the Government’s Religious Hatred Bill and its draconian terror laws. Not one of the strongest independent upholders of human rights, she also supported the introduction of ID cards. As soon as she was elevated to the House of Lords in 1993, she began voting for every homosexual rights measure she could get her hands on, including sodomy on 16-year-olds, in the armed forces, in schools and in sex education, and inevitably for civil partnerships and for homosexuals to be allowed to adopt other people’s children.

Stay A Virgin; Marry a Virgin

‘There is only one way to reduce teenage sex and that is to promote chastity. The message has to be: ‘Stay a virgin; marry a virgin.’ Of course the homosexual lobby won’t like that as there is nothing in it for them, and nor is there any money in chastity for the contraceptive manufacturers and distributors such as the FPA who are so well represented on the Independent Advisory Group.

‘On the wider social front, the ending of our culture of self-gratification, self-destruction, lying, thieving and violence will take a miracle of Godly national repentance. That is what we in Christian Voice are praying and working for. But in the meantime, hands-wringing and more of the same are exactly the sort of irresponsible and ungodly reactions we would expect from this Government-funded Independent (well, except from the Government and the teen sex industry) Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV.’

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