HPV Jabs for the Boys

Since 2008, girls aged 12 and 13 in the UK began to receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination to help prevent cervical cancer. This has been carried out through a school-based programme and has been highly successful in raising the public profile and improving awareness of cervical cancer, as well as saving many thousands of lives.
But this does not tell the whole story of the HPV vaccine.
Many people are unaware that in addition to cervical cancer, HPV also causes mouth, penile and anal cancers, and also genital warts. Young women in the UK are now protected by the vaccination, but not giving it to boys of the same age is putting millions of lives at risk.
We are an active campaigner for a gender-neutral HPV vaccination programme, member of HPV Action and are on the expert advisory committee for Jabs for the Boys, in order to raise awareness of the virus and extend the vaccine to British males.  
The human papillomavirus (HPV)
The Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the n...