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Published: December 13, 2006
Better availability urged for vaccine
By The Associated Press
LONDON — Experts met Tuesday in London to discuss how to make a cervical cancer vaccine available to women in poor countries.

The two-day meeting was being attended by about 60 representatives from public health agencies, pharmaceutical companies, nongovernmental organizations and philanthropic foundations to try to accelerate the developing world's access to the vaccine.

Merck & Co. 's Gardasil is the firs...

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