{"id":214,"date":"2011-02-16T21:30:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T21:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/sti\/?p=214"},"modified":"2011-05-02T21:14:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T21:14:37","slug":"should-boys-have-hpv-vaccination-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/sti\/2011\/02\/16\/should-boys-have-hpv-vaccination-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Should boys have HPV vaccination?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3rd February saw the publication of the results of a 4 year study to ascertain the efficacy of HPV vaccine for boys against HPV strains 6, 11, 16 and 18 . The sponsors were Merck, producers of the HPV vaccine, Gardasil. The double-blind study included 4,065 healthy men aged 16-26 in 18 countries. Efficacy was 90.5 % against external lesions when offered before exposure, and 65.5% when offered regardless of prior exposure<br \/>\nHPV vaccination of girls is widely practised. The question is: should we be vaccinating boys? The authors stress the potential benefits of preventing HPV transmission to women, especially in the light of the low take-up of teenage girls in the US. They also emphasise reduction of transmission from men to men.<br \/>\nRecent independent studies of the cost-effectiveness of HPV vaccination favour vaccination of pre-adolescent females, but not males <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/339\/bmj.b4127.extract\" target=\"_blank\">www.bmj.com\/content\/339\/bmj.b4127.extract<\/a> .  According to J.J. Kim &amp; S.J. Goldie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/bjc\/journal\/v97\/n9\/abs\/6604023a.html\">www.nature.com\/bjc\/journal\/v97\/n9\/abs\/6604023a.html<\/a>, \u201conly under the most favourable assumptions for the benefits &#8230; did the cost per quality adjusted life year fall below $100,000 per QALY\u201d. On one issue at least Kim and Goldie concur with Giuliano and Palefsky: that male HPV vaccination may be cost-effective in situations where the take-up by girls is sufficiently low.<br \/>\nAnna R. Giuliano &amp; Joel M. Palefsky, \u201cEfficacy of Quadrivalent HPV Vaccine against HPV Infection and Disease in Males\u201d, New England Journal of Medicine, February 2011<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/\">http:\/\/www.nejm.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3rd February saw the publication of the results of a 4 year study to ascertain the efficacy of HPV vaccine for boys against HPV strains 6, 11, 16 and 18 . The sponsors were Merck, producers of the HPV vaccine, Gardasil. The double-blind study included 4,065 healthy men aged 16-26 in 18 countries. 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