Published 15 October 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b4241
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b4241

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Australian cervical cancer vaccination leads to rapid decline in genital warts

Zosia Kmietowicz

1 London

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The number of young women presenting with new cases of genital warts in Australia has declined rapidly since the introduction of the national vaccination programme against cervical cancer, in 2007, research has found (Sex Transm Infect 2009; doi:10.1136/sti.2009.037788).

The retrospective study, which looked at rates of genital warts among people attending a sexual health centre in Melbourne between January 2004 and December 2008, found new diagnoses among women under 28 years fell by 25% each quarter in 2008. During the period before the introduction of the vaccination programme, new cases of genital warts in this group rose by 1.8% each quarter.

Australia was one of the first countries in the world to implement vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV). If has offered the quadrivalent vaccine Gardasil free of charge to 12 to 18 year old girls in schools since April 2007 and for women aged 26 and younger . . . [Full text of this article]


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