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Indian Parents Prefer Vaccinating Their Daughters Against Hpv At Older Ages, Purnima Madhivanan, Vijaya Srinivas, Laura Marlow, Soumyadeep Mukherjee, Doddaiah Narayanappa, Shekar Mysore, Anjali Arun, Karl Krupp

Faculty Publications

Increasing uptake of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine should be a priority in developing countries since they suffer 88% of the world’s cervical cancer burden. In many countries studies show that age at vaccination is an important determinate of parental acceptability. This study explores parental preferences on age-to-vaccinate for adolescent school-going girls.