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Boys' HPV 'catch up' rejected

1 min read Oral health and mouth cancer
​Health experts call on government to offer ‘catch-up’ HPV vaccination to boys up to age 18 to protect them against fatal diseases.

Some 16 leading experts in the field of HPV and the diseases it can cause have written to the public health minister Steve Brine MP urging him to offer HPV vaccination to boys aged up to 18 as a catch-up programme.

This would run alongside the vaccination programme for 12/13 year old boys which the government intends to rollout from September 2019.

The experts have also called on the minister to make a firm commitment to starting boys’ vaccination next year rather than just saying he intends to do so.

The letter’s signatories include: Mick Armstrong, chair of the British Dental Association, Professor Michael Escudier, Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal Collage of Surgeons, Hisham Mehanna, Professor of Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Birmingham, Professor Chris Nutting, Consultant Clinical Oncologist at the Royal Marsden Hospital, and Dr Olwen Williams, President of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV.

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