Our thanks to Mike P for this. The start of the piece:
The NHS is refusing to give teenage boys an inexpensive vaccine that grants long-term protection against Britain’s fastest-growing form of cancer – on the grounds that it is cheaper to treat deadly tumours later in life.
The jab grants immunity to the human papillomavirus (HPV), and has been provided free to all girls aged 12 to 13 since 2008 because HPV causes cervical cancer.
But it is now known it also causes ‘oropharyngeal’ cancer of the tongue, mouth and throat, whose incidence is rocketing, as well as tumours of the genitals and anus.
Vaccinating boys would cost an additional £22million a year – against a total NHS UK budget of £148billion. But according to Treasury rules, vaccinating boys is not thought ‘cost-effective’, even though HPV cancer patients face months of expensive, agonising treatment.
We covered the issue of gender differences in healthcare provision in our 2015 manifesto (pp. 61-5). At that time £150m p.a. was being spent on the national screening programme for cervical cancer, plus a sum vaccinating girls, we assume about the same as that estimated for vaccinating girls, £22 m p.a. So £172m p.a. is being spent to reduce and detect cervical cancer, and £0 p.a. to reduce and detect HPV-related cancers (the fastest-growing killer cancers) in males.
Justice for Men & Boys 
The discrimination against men and boys is blatant and complete. But the fathers still play gentlemen towards the women who perpetrate this. Is this stupidity or brainwash ? Custom no longer justifies this type of bahviour towards today’s women.
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Who would choose to be born a male in this country???
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We know that the true spirit and soul of this country does not resemble its current state of degradation. Kipling put it rather well:
If England were what England seems
An’ not the England of our dreams
But only putty, brass an’ paint
‘Ow quick we’d drop ‘er. But she ain’t.
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That’s a nice optimistic note,
I hope you’re right Godfrey, I hope you’re right.
I always have faith in the silent majority having their heart and soul in the right place.
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I’m assuming you can get this HPV vaccine privately?
Get informed, check the safety, efficiency info on this vaccine,
if it’s deemed to have minimal side effects and is effective in protecting against HPV
go get it done privately. If the NHS won’t protect you protect yourselves.
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you have completely missed the point Danuta.
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Oh I know you shouldn’t have to go privately to get the vaccination, it should be a given right that you have equal access to protection, a routine standard vaccination delivered free by the NHS for both males and females.
But if the immediate reality you face is that the NHS isn’t offering this protection and you want it,go and get it done privately.
Other than that males need to set up a campaign demanding equal access to protection against HPV.
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The point, Danuta, is that boys are being denied this immunisation on the grounds that it is more cost effective to allow some to go on to develop cancer and then to treat it with probably catastrophically invasive surgery, chemotherapy or radiography. Such an argument could as well be made for the immunisation of girls, however, a feminised and gynocentric NHS will never suggest such a course.
It’s worth repeating, for the umpteenth time, that men pay 72% of the government’s total personal tax take yet it is women who are overwhelmingly the greatest beneficiaries of government spending, and still they whine that the vast sums squandered on them are not enough.
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Yet again the empathy gap. Authorities obviously think it’s OK for some males to go on to suffer terribly but females must be protected from suffering.
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Worth checking the Department of Health guidelines, available here:
Click to access Green_Book_Chapter_18a.pdf
The DoH guidelines state (1) that prior HPV infection accounts for the lion’s share of later cervical malignancy and (2) that the HPV vaccine is highly effective in preventing infection in ‘susceptible’ females. (Note that ‘susceptible’ here means sexually promiscuous.) Both these statements are perfectly true. Note that these guidelines also state that prior HPV infection is a significant cause of other types of malignancy, including penile and anal cancers.
Regarding the vaccination of boys, the DoH merely states that: ‘Males of any age are not covered by the national HPV vaccination programme’.
There is no attempt to justify why the HPV vaccine is offered only to girls. Rather, we find only the simple assertion that boys are not to be offered the vaccine. Neither NICE nor the DoH makes any attempt to justify why boys are not offered vaccine. They are merely looking the other way and hoping that no one takes notice.
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£22 million to vaccinate circa 400,000 boys every year? NHS inefficiency ought not to surprise me, since I have worked in hospitals for a number of years, but the size of this estimate is astonishing. Boys at ages 12, 13, 14 are at school, so it would be relatively straightforward to vaccinate 90 to 95% of the cohort.
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What amazes me is not that this happens, but that upon it being discovered and widely broadcast, nothing changes. I mean, the HPV double standard (particularly when a major way it is transmitted to men is via oral sex with a woman – do you think if women were getting cancer from blow jobs, this fact would not be used as source for an endless stream of “terrible men” articles by the likes of the Guardian?) has been out in places like the US for years now, but it just doesn’t gain any traction because of the empathy gap between men and women.
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