Pharmacist insights into adolescent human papillomavirus vaccination provision in the United States

HPV vaccination coverage in the United States (US) falls short of the Healthy People 2020 goal of 80% coverage among 13–15 year-old adolescents. Pharmacies are a promising alternative vaccine delivery site that may increase access to HPV vaccination. Our objective was to assess pharmacists’ insights into HPV vaccination provision to adolescents. We recruited 40 licensed pharmacists in eight states with different pharmacy vaccination laws: Alabama, California, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington. Eligible pharmacists either previously provided or were currently providing HPV, tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis, or meningococcal vaccines to adolescents aged 9–17 years. Pharmacists were administered a semi-structured survey to explore insights into HPV vaccination provision. Forty-five percent of surveyed pharmacies offered HPV vaccination to adolescents. Pharmacists’ reported challenges to providing HPV vaccination were parental consent (28%), tracking and patient recall (17%), perceived stigma of vaccination (17%), and education about or promotion of vaccination (17%). Pharmacists offering HPV vaccination sent patient reminders for vaccines with multiple doses (89%) and utilized telephone reminders (72%). Pharmacists informed patients’ primary care providers of HPV vaccination doses most commonly through fax (72%) and updating electronic medical records (22%). One-third of pharmacists reported vaccination provision using the state immunization information system (IIS). Seventy-five percent reported vaccination rates could be increased at their respective pharmacy. Pharmacies are underutilized, although highly accessible, for HPV vaccination in the US. National efforts should expand educational programs to improve public awareness of in-pharmacy HPV vaccination, and improve the utilization of state IIS for reporting immunization coverage of adolescents by pharmacists

Lessons learned from 2 years of influenza vaccinations in the UK and USA during the COVID-19 pandemic as respiratory viruses return

During the COVID-19 pandemic, immunization programs for other respiratory infections, notably influenza continued worldwide but attracted less public or political attention than COVID-19 vaccinations. Due to non-pharmaceutical intervention measures the global influenza burden decreased substantially; but with lifting of restrictions a rebound in other respiratory virus pathogens is both plausible and likely. This article discusses lessons identified from the UK and USA, and provides recommendations for future influenza vaccination programs in light of emerging data from the southern hemisphere and the need for harmonization with COVID-19 vaccination, focusing on operational delivery and messaging to practitioners and the public

Recommendations for a national agenda to substantially reduce cervical cancer

PURPOSE: Prophylactic human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines and new HPV screening tests, combined with traditional Pap test screening, provide an unprecedented opportunity to greatly reduce cervical cancer in the USA. Despite these advances, thousands of women continue to be diagnosed with and die of this highly preventable disease each year. This paper describes the initiatives and recommendations of national cervical cancer experts toward preventing and possibly eliminating this disease. METHODS: In May 2011, Cervical Cancer-Free America, a national initiative, convened a cervical cancer summit in Washington, DC. Over 120 experts from the public and private sector met to develop a national agenda for reducing cervical cancer morbidity and mortality in the USA. RESULTS: Summit participants evaluated four broad challenges to reducing cervical cancer: (1) low use of HPV vaccines, (2) low use of cervical cancer screening, (3) screening errors, and (4) lack of continuity of care for women diagnosed with cervical cancer. The summit offered 12 concrete recommendations to guide future national and local efforts toward this goal. CONCLUSIONS: Cervical cancer incidence and mortality can be greatly reduced by better deploying existing methods and systems. The challenge lies in ensuring that the array of available prevention options are accessible and utilized by all age-appropriate women-particularly minority and underserved women who are disproportionately affected by this disease. The consensus was that cervical cancer can be greatly reduced and that prevention efforts can lead the way towards a dramatic reduction in this preventable disease in our country

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Barbara and Peter Rothholz Family Collection 1877-1969 1916-1937

The Barbara and Peter Rothholz Family Collection contains documents and photographs of the families of Peter Rothholz and his wife, Barbara Peters Rothholz (originally Baerbel Gruenpeter), along with papers of the extended family.Medals awarded to Alfred Rothholz in WW I have been removed to the LBI Art and Objects Collection.2 books, Gebete der Israeliten (Prag, 1887) and Louis Boehm : Lieder eines fahrenden Chossid have been removed to the LBI Library.Dr. Walter Gruenpeter (later Peters; (1896-1978) was born in Kattowitz, the only son of Salon and Hedwig (née Zernik) Gruenpeter. He had a sister, Ilse and a half-sister, Inge, both of whom died in the Holocaust. He studied law at the Universities of Breslau and Freiburg and became an associate at the law office of Eugen Bandmann. In 1931 he married Eugen Bandmann's daughter, Charlotte. They had one daughter, Baerbel Gruenpeter, later Barbara Peters, who was born in 1933. Walter Gruenpeter was disbarred after Hitler's rise to power and emigrated to Belgrade, Yugoslavia with his family. In 1938 he left for England while his wife and daughter went to the United States. He joined them in 1940. There is no information as to what happened to his wife after that, but in 1972 he married Alice Stern (née Salm).Alfred (Adolf) Rothholz (1903-1963) was born in Pudewitz (today Pobiedziska, Poland). He was the son of Jakob and Dorotea Rothholz. He and his two brothers, Heinrich and Leo volunteered for service in the German Army in World War I. Alfred and Heinrich were severely wounded and Leo went missing-in-action. Alfred married Bertha Isner of Bayreuth in 1927 and had one son, Lutz-Peter (Peter), who was born in 1929. They divorced in 1933. In 1936 Alfred brought his son to live with him in Dresden and subsequently they emigrated to London in 1938 and then moved to Oxford in 1941 and later to Cambridge. After the end of World War II, Peter moved to the United States to live with his mother and his stepfather, Leo Strauss. Alfred returned to London, where he married Gertrude Rosenheimer in 1949. He died in 1963.Barbara Peters (Baerbel Gruenpeter) married Peter Rothholz.Leo Strauss was the stepfather of Peter Rothholz.Finding aid available online.ProcessedProcesseddigitize