Partnership, Partners Release New Clinical Tools for Adolescent Male Health Visits

The Partnership for Male Youth has announced the release of a set of tools that health care providers can use to guide their visits by adolescent males ages 14-18. The tools were developed by a collaboration of the Partnership, American Sexual Health Association, Healthy Teen Network and the School Based Health Alliance. They are available online for download here.

 

Contrary to misconceptions, vaccinating your preteen against the HPV virus will not drive her or him toward a Kardashian level of promiscuity. Study after study shows that getting protection against the humanpapilloma virus does not lead to altered perceptions or riskier behavior. So the news last week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that New Jersey has the fourth-lowest HPV vaccination rate in the nation for girls is not only galling, it is an invitation for avoidable tragedy.

New Jersey Star Ledger, August 8, 2015

Responses to an Education Life article about pressure on students and the rising rate of suicide on college campuses.

To the Editor: Re "Fear of Failing" (Education Life section, Aug. 2):

The vast majority of students who commit suicide are male. And yet every single one of your "case studies" was female. Not once did you indicate that males are more prone to succeed in committing suicide than females or that 80 percent of all suicides between the ages of 14 and 28 are males. Why the focus on women to the exclusion of men in such an article?

New York Times, August 8, 2015

Quadrivalent HPV vaccination in older HIV-positive men who have sex with men after treatment for high-grade anal intraepithelial neoplasia could reduce treatment costs and the lifetime risk of anal cancer, according to recent data.

Helio, August 7, 2015

Philly leads nation on HPV vaccination

Last year, Philadelphia used federal grant money to train 500 doctors, nurses and other health care providers across the city. They learned new ways to talk about the vaccine with families and to focus on the fact that it is a cancer prevention vaccine.

Newsworks, August 7, 2015

Hello, I'm Dr Sandra Fryhofer. Welcome to Medicine Matters. The topic: HPV vaccination, the transition to HPV9, and gender differences in additional cancer protection.

Medscape, August 7, 2015

In  Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men , out last month from NYU Press, Jane Ward, an associate professor of women's studies at the University of California, Riverside, makes the case that this is a flawed understanding. In doing so, she shows that homosexual contact has been a regular feature of heterosexual life ever since the concepts of homo- and heterosexuality were first created - not just in prisons and frat houses and the military, but in biker gangs and even conservative suburban neighborhoods.

New York Magazine, August 5, 2015

Only 40 percent of girls and 22 percent of boys ages 13-17 had finished their course of three shots for HPV by 2014. For comparison, 88 percent of boys and girls in the same age group received their  Tdap  (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) shot. 1  The United States has  set  a goal of vaccinating 80 percent of girls against HPV as one of its  Healthy People 2020  objectives, and, according to Shannon Stokley, an epidemiologist in the Immunization Services Division of the CDC, "We have a long way to go to get to 80 percent; it's hard to tell if we're going to reach it by 2020." However, Stokley told me she believes the success of the Tdap vaccine shows that these rates are achievable, if states and doctors keep educating parents about how vaccinations can protect their children from cancer. Although many people who get HPV do not develop cancer, the virus is the cause of  almost all  cervical cancers and 91 percent of anal cancers.

fivethirtyeight, August 5, 2015

The report shows 39 percent of Alabama teen girls aged 13 to 17 have had the vaccine, which matches the national number. But only 9 percent of male adolescents have had the immunization, which is well below the national average.

SFGate, August 4, 2015

Majority of Indiana teens not getting HPV vaccinations

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show the HPV vaccination rates for boys and girls ages 13 to 17 in Indiana remain below the national averages, but a medical expert attributes the state's lag to increasing rates across the U.S.More than 44 percent of the state's teenage girls have received the full dose of the HPV vaccine, compared to 60 percent nationwide. Indiana is among the top 10 least-vaccinated states for teenage boys, with nearly 13 percent of them fully vaccinated, compared to 40 percent nationwide.

Sun Herald, August 4, 2015

A comprehensive analysis of more than 400 men over a 20-year period casts new doubt on the idea of marijuana use, even when long-term, being associated with physical and mental health problems later on in life. The authors of the study, published in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, looked at data taken from the Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS), a longitudinal study that attempted to track the development of antisocial and delinquent behavior among a selected group of first, third, and seventh grade boys attending public school in Pittsburgh from 1987 to 1988 (For the purposes of this current study, only data on the seventh grade boys, totaling 506 kids, was used).

Medical Daily, August 4, 2015

The Department of Health is launching a statewide campaign in August aimed at improving HPV vaccine rates. The campaign encourages parents of teens to  get the facts about HPV  and talk to their child's health care provider about the vaccine. The campaign will reach parents through digital and radio advertising, as well as through partnerships with community organizations.

BL Courier, August 3, 2015

Teenagers are less likely to be vaccinated against human papillomavirus in Kansas than they are in almost any other state - a fact that needs to change to prevent future health problems, according to a group advocating for public health.

Topeka Capital Journal, August 2, 2015

OPINION: Young men lagging women in health stats

It is important to tailor a nutrition program specifically for young men to better cater to their needs and overcome participation barriers, and this is exactly what our research team at the University of Newcastle plans to do.

Newcastle Herald, August 2, 2015

More teenagers in Chicago were vaccinated against human papillomavirus last year than ever before, according to a news release from Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office Friday.

As of 2014, the release said, more than 78 percent of the city's girls and almost 65 percent of its boys have received at least the first dose of a three-round HPV vaccination. Both those numbers exceed the national average and represent about a 20-point jump from 2013, the release said.

DNA Info, August 2, 2015

The Weekly News Roundup is produced by The Partnership for Male Youth and is released every Monday. 

For more information contact Dennis J. Barbour, Esq. News Roundup editor and Executive Director of the Partnership, at dbarbour@partnershipformaleyouth.org.

The  Partnership for Male Youth is a collaboration among 23 national organizations and representation from six federal agencies. It is led by a multidisciplinary and multispecialty steering committee and advisory council. The Partnerships's flagship effort, released in January 2014, is  The Health Provider Toolkit for Adolescent and Young Adult Males.