A nationwide Swedish study reveals that when HPV vaccination reaches high coverage through schools, it protects even those who remain unvaccinated, dramatically lowering rates of the most serious ...

More than a quarter of pupils are missing out on the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, leaving many at risk of cancer, a new report has found. It found that a "dangerously low" level of awareness ...

School-based immunisation against human papillomavirus (HPV) could also offer protection against the development of pre-cancerous cells in unvaccinated women through herd immunity, according to a ...

Until last week, the future of vaccination for human papillomavirus, or HPV, in the United States seemed clear. For several years, a growing body of evidence has suggested that just a single dose of ...

South Africa’s free, school-based two-dose national vaccination programme against the cervical cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV) is effective. Girls who received the vaccine had an 83% lower ...

HPV is an abbreviation for human papillomavirus. There are about 100 types of HPV viruses and some of them can cause cancer. Roughly, 14 million people get the infection each year. HPV infection is ...

Clara Wilhelm is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Iowa. She will begin Family Medicine residency in July 2025. Picture this: It’s circa 2012 and I’m 13 years old, sitting awkwardly ...