Promoting HPV Awareness: Prevention Strategies in the United Kingdom

This report discusses the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), a common sexually transmitted infection, and strategies for increasing public awareness and promoting preventative health behaviors in the United Kingdom. It highlights the lack of a specific cure for HPV, emphasizing prevention through health education, condom use, and safer sexual practices. The report also covers national guidelines for combating HPV-related cancers and strategies such as public awareness campaigns, vaccination, risk factor avoidance, and visual examinations. It stresses the importance of educating the public about HPV's causes, symptoms, and necessary precautions, suggesting government-led health campaigns and seminars to increase awareness and promote vaccination. The report further explores health promotion programs and theories, such as the health belief model, to encourage healthy behaviors and reduce chronic disease risks. It concludes by emphasizing the combined effectiveness of HPV vaccination and cervical screening in preventing cervical cancer and reducing healthcare costs. The report also highlights the need to avoid multiple sex partners, smoking, and alcohol to further prevent the spread of HPV.

Human papilloma virus is defined as the most common viral
infection of the reproductive tract and is sexually transmitted infection.
In this, the sexually active women as well as men are more likely to get
this infection. The peak time for having this viral infection is when the
women and men both are sexually active. Most of the people do not
infer any symptoms with this viral infection but still these people can
infect others through sexual transmission. This viral infection may
contain symptoms such as warts on the genital area, a type of skin
infection. As there is no cure of this virus and only have been is to
removal of this wart. Main purpose of developing this poster is to aware
people of United Kingdom about such virus. In this poster it will also
cover several strategies that are used to develop understanding as well as
promote the health behavior regarding viral infection caused by
papilloma virus among United Kingdom public.
There is no specific treatment
available against this virus yet,
therefore more focus is put in
developing the strategies to prevent
rather than treating the viral infection.
The health education measures aimed
at developing the use of condoms
while having sex, decreasing the
number of multiple partners during
sex as well as promoting the safer sex
has been active with the aim of
reducing the spread of the human
papillomavirus. Many countries
including United Kingdom has been
establishing the national guidelines in
order to defeat the cancer that are
associated with viral infection called
as papillomavirus. The strategies to
prevent and abolition of the papilloma
virus infection includes such as public
awareness, vaccination, avoidance of
risk factors, visual examination, DNA
testing of papillomavirus.
Understanding the concept of papilloma virus…
The concept of papillomavirus includes the number of cases
that is nearly about 36,000 of cancers among men every year in a
country. There is vaccination of this viral infection and can prevent
the infection to spread. It is very important to aware people about
viral infection so that people can protect themselves by stop the
spread. it is quite essential to spread the information about
papilloma virus such as how it can be caused or the symptoms of
this viral infection. In addition to this understanding, it is also
crucial to spread the knowledge of the viral infection among the
UK public so that they can get to know about the precautions which
should be taken if anyone can get this viral infection.
The government of United Kingdom can prevent the
spread by simply aware the public such as by conducting the
health campaigns, social seminars as well as the media
campaigns. In addition to this, the awareness between the public
can increase the awareness of the severity and the prevalence of
viral infection and the cancer prevention benefits of the vaccine.
As this can directly impact over the adults, teenagers or the
targeted audience.
THE
HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS

The message
incudes to conduct the
campaigns can be based on
the health belief models.
As the health belief models
and behaviour change
states that public simply
will not change their health
behaviours until their
health is at risk. There are
several theories of health
promotions such as
Tannehill model, the health
belief model and behaviour
change are developed.
These health theories aim
to encourage as well as
engage the public and the
society to choose the
healthy behaviour. These
promotion theories also
aim to make alterations
which help to decrease the
risk of developing chronic
disorders as well as other
morbidities.
Health promotion programs...
The main of health promotion
as well as the disease prevention
programs is to keep the public
healthy. The promotion program’s
main goal is to engage and support
the public and the society to choose
the healthy behaviour.
It thereby decreases this viral infection among individual who are not vaccinated. From the survey,
widespread virus vaccination contains a potential to decrease the cervical cancer around the world by as much as
90%. In addition to this, the vaccination may decrease the requirements of screening as well as ensuing medical care
and the invasive procedures that are generally linked with abnormal cervical screening, thus helping to decrease
wellness care costs and so on.
It also encompasses to make modifications which will decrease the risk of
developing chronic illness and other morbidities. There are various promotion
programs which are developed in order to enhance the well-being such as the health
belief models, behavioural theory and many more. These are built to develop
healthy public policy, create supportive surroundings for well-being, strengthen the
actions of the society for wellness as well as improve the personal skills.
Is vaccination necessary?
The combination of vaccinations such as human papillomavirus as well as
the cervical screening can gives the higher protection against the cervical cancer.
Moreover, the vaccination of papillomavirus can generally decrease the risk of
improving the cancer that is caused by viral infection at the sites except cervix. It is
considered as not only does the vaccination guards the people who are vaccinated
against the viral infection but it can also decrease the incidence of the vaccine
generally targeted virus types among the population.
Prevention strategies
To prevent the spread of human papillomavirus, here are some strategies to prevent viral infection which are as
mentioned below:
Public awareness: It includes the media, health campaigns and social seminars.
Vaccination: It can be prevented if the right dose of antiviral infection is administered at an appropriate age
period
Avoidance of risk factors: It generally includes the avoidance of multiple sex partners, smoking, alcohol.
Visual examination: It involves the detection of abnormal lesions. It can be done with or without applying the
chemicals.
Decreased exposure to the risk factors: It is well known that viral infection can be transferred from skin to skin
and through sexual contact but it is not reported yet about transmission through the body fluid and secretion of
viral infection. However, it can be transferred from carrier mother to a baby during birth that includes
papillomatosis. Thus, to prevent this viral infection the mucosal layers can be prevented by avoiding the skin
contact with the carrier person.

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Mohammed, K.A., Subramaniam, D.S., Geneus, C.J., Henderson, E.R., Dean, C.A., Subramaniam, D.P. and Burroughs, T.E.,
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