UK Government to Begin Giving HPV Vaccine to Boys Amid Public Outcry

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Close-up of a little black African ethnicity boy getting a medical injection as a vaccination.

by Christina England
Health Impact News

The UK government has recently announced that, by September 2019, boys aged 12 to 13 years will be given the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, a vaccine that has been available to girls in the UK for the past ten years.

The decision was made because the vaccine, originally offered to girls in the UK to protect them against HPV, a virus believed to cause cervical cancer, is now believed to be able to protect individuals …read more

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