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Cervical cancer rates are in decline thanks to the HPV vaccine

Just one dose of the HPV vaccine may be enough to lower cancer rates

29 July 2019

A single dose of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine seems to be almost as good as two or three injections for preventing cervical precancerous lesions
boy having the HPV vaccine

Refusing boys HPV vaccine saves the NHS cash but is bad science

20 July 2017

A UK advisory committee has decided that it isn’t cost effective to give boys a vaccine that wards off cancer, but that ignores the reality of teenagers’ sex lives

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