At-School HPV Vaccination Program Increased Uptake, Study Finds

MedPage Today (5/23, Kahn) reports, “An at-school vaccination program in France significantly increased human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine coverage, according to results of the PrevHPV cluster randomized trial.” The program “increased median HPV vaccination coverage by an adjusted 5.5 percentage points after 2 months of the intervention,” researchers “reported in JAMA Network Open.” Healio (5/23, Welsh) reports, “In subgroup analyses, researchers observed a significant interaction between HPV vaccination at school and general practitioner access, with a higher effect with poor access (8.62 vs. 2.13 percentage points; P = .007).”