Minority College Students' HPV Knowledge, Awareness, and Vaccination History

The genital human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) affecting males and females in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2017a). It is estimated that 79 million individuals are infected with HPV, and 14 million Americans become newly infected with HPV each year (CDC, 2016). HPV can be contracted through vaginal, anal, or oral intercourse, as well as by skin-to-skin contact, and can cause cervical, vaginal, vulvar, anal, and oral cancers.
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