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Funded HPV vaccine now gender-neutral

Funded HPV vaccine now gender-neutral

Funded HPV vaccine now gender-neutral Funded HPV vaccine now gender-neutral, 5.46 MB
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

The government announced yesterday that boys as well as girls will now have funded access to the HPV vaccine Gardasil. The vaccine is commonly understood to protect against cervical cancer, but HPV can cause other types of cancer in both men and women. 95bFM reporter Olly Clifton speaks to the University of Auckland's Gay Men’s Sexual Health research group director, Peter Saxton, about the move to make the funded vaccine gender-neutral.