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The best $12 students spend
The Chabot College Health Student Center offers affordable health care for those registered students when they are feeling ill, need a check up, and in their times of need
Michelle Olson
Issue date: 9/6/07 Section: In Focus
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Many students don't know about HPV or the health center located in Building 100 Room 120, which has an array of services to offer, including the HPV vaccine.
The vaccine is given to women over a six-month period in three injections. One must not be older than 26 years to be eligible for the vaccination. The price is discounted to $126 per injection.
This still may seem like a lot of money, but the vaccine protects against 70 percent of cervical cancer cases and 90 percent of genital warts cases.
Certified Medical Assistant, Leilani Guerrero, says "Women should get the vaccine because it protects from cancer."
Dale Wagoner, dean of health, physical education and athletics, talks about the "layered levels of protection for HPV" in three approaches.
"The first way to protect is abstinence, the second is protection. The condom is the easiest and simplest form of protection.
The third is the HPV vaccine which allows a certain level of protection for women, but not 100 percent."
Wagoner adds, "I support the vaccine." He discusses the moral issue associated with the vaccine of supposedly promoting sex by saying; "We've taken the condom debate and extended it to a vaccine."
Two new, 18-year-old female students, Tina and Rita, were unsure what HPV exactly is, but Tina knew that it is sexually transmitted.
Tina said, "Women need to protect themselves" when asked what women can do to keep from getting HPV. Rita responded, "I don't know much about it, so I can't fully say" to the same question.
A trip to the health center can be informational on any subject. There are pamphlets on many health issues.
The Health Center is where students' $12 health fee goes every semester. The center is run by Valley Care Health System, and is very similar to a doctor's office. They open at 9 a.m. and close at 7 p.m.
The center has a certified nurse practitioner on duty at all times to help registered Chabot College students, 18 and up, with health issues.
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