A group of Barnard students have banded together to fight cervical cancer.

The newly-formed group, the HPV Education and Outreach Project, joined forces with Well-Woman, a health promotion student group at Barnard College, to increase awareness of women’s health—particularly the risks surrounding human papillomavirus. The group is a partnership of the Global Initiative Against HPV and Cervical Cancer, or GIAHC, which was launched in July by Shobha Krishnan, a staff physician at Barnard and the author of “The HPV Vaccine Controversy: Sex, Cancer, God, and Politics.

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