Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection, affecting almost all women and men at some point in their lives. Currently, 79 million Americans are infected with this virus, of which 14 million, usually young adults, are infected each year. HPV is made up of a group of around 100 viruses, some of which are harmless and do not require treatment. However, others can have malicious effects on the body. For example, strains 6 and 11, which are among the most common, cause benign, low-grade cell abnormalities, which can lead to warts. Other strains have much more drastic effects, such as strains 16 and 18, which are also very common, but they also pose a very high risk as they can cause cancer. Some other high-risk strains are 33,45,52 and 58. 16 and 18 cause about 70% of all annual cervical cancer cases. Every year, 26,000 people are diagnosed with cancer due to HPV which, in women, is usually cervical cancer. However, some patients may take a year to develop symptoms, if they occur at all. Most of these types of HPV are contacted through sexual intercourse by an infected person. HPV is very important to study because it is one of the main roots of our society and will affect everyone throughout their lives. This article provides background and literature review on the HPV vaccine and its effectiveness. It will inform the reader by providing multiple types of viewpoints and argument structures, all based on factual science, to determine the effectiveness of the vaccine. Additionally, current data on HPV vaccines, recorded and reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and their effectiveness will be analyzed. The contraction of the malignant HPV filaments can be avoided get...... middle of paper . ... of data, one in which subjects were asked whether their knowledge would influence how they voted for a candidate, and another whether parents should have a say in whether their child should be vaccinated. In the first case, framing had an important effect on political support, especially with positive framing. For the latter, framing also had an important impact, but statistical significance was only found in those subjected to a negative frame who responded negatively to the prompt. Some limitations in this project were imposed by the small sample size and potential participant response bias. This led to the acceptance of few alternative hypotheses, which could have been avoided with a larger sample. Additionally, even though participants were contacted via random dialing, this created sample bias as only people with a listed phone number were reached. Of this sample achieved,