testing and treatment for cervical cancer, which is the leading cause of cancer death across africa among women to the aids platform that was already set up. the aids program that george started, president emergency plan for aids relief. so what we were finding is that now because women in africa with aids are on arv s, they re living with aids. but then they re dying of cervical cancer because they just didn t have the testing or the treatment that we have here in the united states. dana: it s impressive the numbers, the screenings that you ve had. 141,000 girls receiving the doses of the vaccine. that s right. dana: 430,000 women receiving basic screening for cervical cancer. now there is a vaccine for the human paploma virus. now this pink ribbon red ribbon can also become a vaccination. danhis past weekend you and the president hosted the annual wounded warrior ride.
issues this had the making offing of a political fire storm, kids, sexually transmitted disease and government telling parents how they should protect their own children. the issue, of course is texas governor rick perry s 2007 executive order requiring girls to get vaccinated against human paploma virus, hpv, a virus that can cause cervical answer. that executive order never saw the light of day. perry signed it. two months later, the state legislature turned it over and it died on the vine. despite that fact in the debate michele bachmann tried to paint rick perry as someone who wanted innocent little girls to be held down by the arm of big government and forcibly stuck with needles in their arms. now, after the debate, she s even trying to raise fears that the hpv vaccine can cause mental retardation, something she s repeated on television at least twice already. that is, by all accounts, just flat-out wrong. more on that in a minute. but first bachmann and perry going hea
issues that came up last night in last night s cnn debate, issues this had the making offing of a political fire storm, kids, sexually transmitted disease and government telling parents how they should protect their own children. the issue, of course is texas governor rick perry s 2007 executive order requiring girls to get vaccinated against human paploma virus, hpv, a virus that can cause cervical answer. that executive order never saw the light of day. perry signed it. two months later, the state legislature turned it over and it died on the vine. despite that fact in the debate michele bachmann tried to paint rick perry as someone who wanted innocent little girls to be held down by the arm of big government and forcibly stuck with needles in their arms. now, after the debate, she s even trying to raise fears that the hpv vaccine can cause mental retardation, something she s repeated on television at least twice already. that is, by all accounts, just flat-out wrong. more