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estimate that 275,000 women worldwide die of cervical each year. Cancer of the cervix kills another every two minutes. Eighty-five percent of the women in the world's poorest countries. In richer countries, kind of cancer is more often diagnosed early treated. Cervical cancer is usually caused by the papillomavirus. HPV is spread through sex, but a can protect against it. The vaccine is generally to girls between the ages of nine and The HPV vaccine is given three times, in separate doses. It only works if someone has yet become infected. Now, two big drug companies agreed to lower the price for the HPV for poor countries. The Global Alliance for Vaccines Immunization, or GAVI, announced the agreement. Seth Berkley the chief executive officer for GAVI. He says alliance hopes to provide the vaccine to 30 girls in more than 40 countries by 2020.Under agreement, Merck and GlaxoSmithKline will sell their HPV for about $4.50 for each dose. Until now, lowest price for poor countries was $13 per . The vaccine costs more than $100 in developed . Kate Elder is with the medical aid group Without Borders. She says the new price is too high. She says the drug companies have enough profit from vaccine sales. GlaxoSmithKline says the has to be high enough so that company earn money on their investment. But Kate Elder the drug companies should be more open about much it really costs to make the vaccines. VOA Learning English, I'm Alex Villarreal.

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