Jabs for the Boys aims to improve public education about HPV and the HPV vaccination, following new research which points to a startling lack of knowledge about the infection, particularly in relation to British men.
The new initiative follows a nationwide study that found fewer than one in eight (12%) adults identify HPV with diseases that affect men – such as head and neck, anal and penile cancer – and are more than twice as likely to associate the infection with cervical cancer (27%).
HPV is responsible for around 5% of all cancers worldwide, and also genital warts, in both sexes.
Worryingly, the poll reveals more than one in three (34%) British men believe themselves not to be at risk of HPV.
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