Free HPV vaccine catch-up programme backed by Laura Brennan's family opens

Larry and Bernie Brennan, parents of the late Laura Brennan, pictured with Health Minister Stephen Donnelly at the announcement of the opening of the online registration portal for the Laura Brennan HPV Vaccination Catch-Up Programme. Picture: Maxwells

A free catch-up programme offering HPV vaccination to girls and boys in secondary schools who missed out on it for any reason in the last few years opened on Thursday.

The ‘Laura Brennan HPV Vaccination Catch-Up Programme’ is also available for young women up to the age of 25 who have left secondary school and did not previously receive the vaccine.