Many parents who intend to vaccinate their adolescents against HPV do not do so

Slightly more than half of parents who said they intended to vaccinate their adolescents against HPV actually followed through with the vaccination, according to results from a poster presented at the Annual Conference on Vaccine Research. “Not all parents with intentions to vaccinate actually follow through with initiation of the HPV vaccine,” UTMB’s Beth Auslander told Infectious Disease News. “So, we need to explore reasons for the lack of follow-through among these families.”