Teenage boys to be vaccinated against cancer-causing HPV
by Haroon Siddique from on (#3VFR4)
Inoculation programme will be expanded to cover 12- and 13-year-old boys in England
Boys aged 12 and 13 in England are to be vaccinated against the cancer-causing human papilloma virus (HPV), the government has said.
The decision, announced on Tuesday, comes after the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommended last week that the HPV vaccination, which protects girls against cervical cancer, should be extended to boys. It followed growing calls for the inoculation programme to be expanded.
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