Data shows it can prevent six types of cancer. But anti-vaccine activists, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

The vaccine is typically given in a series of two doses 6 to 12 months apart for kids or teenagers, and three doses over the ...

Cervical cancer was the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide in 2022, according to the WHO. Against this backdrop, ...

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu government has allocated Rs 36 crore in the budget to provide the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to ...

Introduced in 2006, the HPV vaccine initially was approved only for girls and young women. Its recommended use now includes everyone through age 26, though vaccination at ages 11 to 12 — or even ...

BEIJING -- The Chinese capital plans to administer free human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines to seventh-grade girls starting in September this year, joining several provincial-level regions and ...

In the US, the HPV vaccine was first approved in 2006 for girls and women, with boys and men added to the recommendations in 2011. Today, the CDC recommends routine HPV vaccination for boys and ...

There are three vaccines approved by the FDA against HPV, which have proved effective at greatly reducing rates of cervical cancer. Despite this, only one in eight girls are immunised globally.