HPV vaccine concerns: GPs should not dismiss worries

The HPV vaccine will be made available to first-year boys in secondary schools in Ireland for the first time from next week. Until now, boys have not been included in the free human papillomavirus school vaccination programme.

Since 2010, girls in the first year of secondary school have been offered a form of the vaccine, which has now been made more effective against nine out of 10 types of HPV cancers.