General Article Why it makes medical – and mathematical – sense to finally vaccinate boys against the HPV virus

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Why it makes medical – and mathematical – sense to finally vaccinate boys against the HPV virus

Christian Yates, University of Bath

From September 2019, boys aged 12 and 13 in the UK are being offered free vaccination against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) for the first time. HPV causes cervical cancer, and girls and young women have been receiving the vaccine for over ten years. So why is it being rolled out for boys too? And why only now?

One reason for giving the vaccine to boys is that t...

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