Wednesday, July 31, 2013
HPV Vaccination Rate Among Teenage Girls Remains Low
The New York Times: HPV Vaccine Not Reaching Enough Girls, C.D.C. Says, by Sabrina Tavernise:
The very low vaccination rate for teenage girls against the human papillomavirus — the most common sexually transmitted infection and a principal cause of cervical cancer — did not improve at all from 2011 to 2012, and health officials on Thursday said a survey found that doctors were often failing to bring it up or recommend it when girls came in for other reasons. . . .
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/reproductive_rights/2013/07/hpv-vaccine-still-uncommon-among-teenage-girls-1.html