IMO Conference: ‘It’s wrong to not give boys HPV vaccine’

Boys are being exposed to certain preventable cancers and sexually transmitted diseases because of the State’s continuing failure to include them in a vaccination programme available to girls since 2010.

Doctors attending the Irish Medical Organisation’s AGM in Kilkenny yesterday heard it was “just plain wrong” to exclude half the population from the HPV vaccination programme.

The vaccine helps to prevent cervical cancer in women and genital warts and potential HIV infection in men.