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Naked Scientists episode

Sun, 28th Nov 2004

Safe Sex, & Cervical Cancer Vaccines

In the run up to World AIDS week consultant GU medicine physician Dr Sarah Edwards joins us to talk about the present epidemic of sexually transmitted infections including chlamydia, HIV, herpes, syphilis and gonorrhoea, and Prof. Margaret Stanley, from the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge, discusses how she has developed a vaccine against human papilloma virus (HPV), the agent which causes cervical cancer. Also joining us on the show is Dr. Helen McShane, from Oxford University, to talk about a new vaccine she has developed to combat the huge global problem of tuberculosis (TB).

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