Tag: Sexually Transmitted Disease

Offering the HPV vaccine for boys as well as girls

Apr 27, 2015

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by

QPol at Queen’s

in Health and Wellbeing

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is a common sexually transmitted virus. It is so common that nearly all sexually active men and women get it at some point in their lives. Dr Gillian Prue asks why then do we currently only offer the vaccine to females?