Getting the HPV shot in adolescence can spare kids a lifetime of risk for cervical and other cancers related to the virus, but only half of American kids are up-to-date on these shots.
Unfortunately, CDC data for 2022 showed that just 50% of 13-year-olds were up-to-date on HPV vaccination.Currently, only Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Virginia and Washington, D.C., have such requirements in place.
In the new study, the Wake Forest team, plus researchers at Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, looked at 2009-2022 data from 36 different studies comparing HPV vaccination rates against local school entry policies. “We found consistent evidence that school-entry requirements work in places that require parents who don't vaccinate to submit an exemption,” said study senior author Brigid Grabert, an assistant professor of implementation science at Wake Forest University's School of Medicine, in Winston-Salem, N.C.
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