2023-09-02 08:00:06
WHO experts rely on several recent studies to record this change.
What if the HPV vaccine administration schedule became simpler again? This is what the World Health Organization (WHO) suggests. In December 2022, the UN agency declared that a single dose “may offer efficacy and duration of protection comparable to a two-dose regimen” for girls aged 9-20. For older people, two doses would still be needed.
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WHO experts base themselves on several recent studies to record this change, and in particular Indian work in which the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) participated.
“During their study, the researchers faced a vaccine supply problem. Young girls therefore did not receive a complete diagram. But instead of stopping the study, they decided to compare the group that received one dose to the group that received two or three doses. And it appears that after ten years of follow-up the single dose limits the persistence of infections as much as several…
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