If the idea of a cancer you can get from sex makes you scared, there’s a way you can feel more empowered (aside from not having sex, of course…). You can become a Cervical Cancer & HPV Awareness Ambassador and spread the word about this disease to everyone you know.

30 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer every day, and 12,000 people age 24 or younger contract human papilomavirus. The odds are that, while they may not all get cancer, 8 out of 10 women will contract HPV—making it something that touches us all somehow.

As an Ambassador, you can help women (and men—they can become infected, too; did you know that some types of HPV cause genital warts?) protect themselves by learning the necessary information to educate people about HPV and cervical cancer—and spreading the word to everyone you know.

Signing up is really easy. I clicked here, gave just a bit of information, and read the quick tutorial (which includes a handful of really easy quiz questions—if you read the information you’ll get them all right). The site says the tutorial takes only five minutes, but it’s closer to 7-10 if you read it thoroughly—and try to pronounce “papilomavirus” a few times with the pronunciation guide, like I did!

Now I’m ready to receive my Ambassador welcome kit in the mail, which will include all of the materials I need to spread the word to at least twenty people. It will include a conversation guide

The point of the program is to get a conversation going. Start talking about the disease and get people armed with the knowledge they need to protect themselves. The starting goal is twenty people—but we can all do more than that, right?

Then, once I’ve contacted all of these people, I can record my progress online at my personal page. When I’m finished, the program will also give me some kind of prize…but the real prizes, as I’m sure you’ll agree, is helping to protect the people I care about from getting cervical cancer.

And cervical cancer and genital warts aren’t the only things you can get from HPV. There are over 30 different kinds, and they can also cause other types of cancer.

I hope you’ll take this opportunity to become a Cervical Cancer & HPV Awareness Ambassador. To find out more about the program, click here.