No effect of human papillomavirus vaccination on sexual debut of school children.
CONCLUSIONS: Overall, no difference in the proportion of pupils with sexual debut or mean age at sexual debut was observed between HPV-vaccinated and unvaccinated adolescents in Denmark. However, HPV-vaccinated adolescents were more likely to stop using a condom despite their higher STI awareness.
FUNDING: Author Anne Hammer received funding from the Danish Cancer Society.
TRIAL REGISTRATION: not relevant.
PMID: 30910005 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Danish Medical Journal - Category: General Medicine Tags: Dan Med J Source Type: research
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