ACOG Recommendations Women's Care

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recently has recently recommended these tests to be done on women:

1. Women 19-64 should be screened for HIV regardless of their risk factors
2. Women in the childbearing age should plan their pregnancy
3. Women 50 and over should have screening for colon and rectal cancer
4. Women aged 9-26 years should receive the HPV Vaccine
5. Whooping cough vaccine has been added to the Tetanus Diphtheria and the Meningitis vaccine. The vaccine should be given between 11 and 16 and every 10 years thereafter till age 64