Risk factors, sexual history shouldn't guide HPV vaccination

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Added: December 9, 2008 | Time 02:51 | Views: 372

A new study from U-M C.S. Mott Children's Hospital finds that using risk factors -- including a woman's sexual history - to target specific populations for HPV vaccination is not effective, and would exclude as many as 80 percent of women who could benefit the most from the vaccine.

Topics: Other STI's

Tags: cancer, hpv, medicine, sexual health, STD, university michigan, vaccination

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