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geminigirl ([personal profile] geminigirl) wrote in [community profile] vaginapagina 2006-08-11 06:03 am (UTC)

Please accept my apologies if this is less than coherent, I'm trying not to fall asleep...

The article doesn't say if she had a cancer causing strain or a wart causing strain. In men, the wart-causing strains can often be detected with a visual inspection, or a vinegar swab of the genitals, which will effectively "highlight" the flat warts.

Money to do this kind of testing could come from several sources-without seeing the organization's budget it's hard to say, but anything from insurance to discretionary spending to budget cuts in other areas could provide the funding. Facilities like this often have contracts with labs where they pay very little for analysis. It probably isn't routine to jump in and screen everyone for HPV, but when there's an incident that causes concern like this, the people at risk would be identified and probably screened.

I think the bigger problem here is the lack of ability to care properly for residents that this article describes...there's a failure to figure out who assaulted the woman, the failure to move her promptly when they found out she'd been assaulted, there's the fact that the mother had to chase down someone to even handle her complaint, and that the people who are responsible for it are too overwhelmed to deal with it and so on.

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