ACIP Expands HPV Vaccine Recommendation to Adolescent Boys -- AAFP News Now -- American Academy of Family Physicians

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ACIP Expands HPV Vaccine Recommendation to Adolescent Boys -- AAFP News Now -- American Academy of Family Physicians

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, voted to recommend major changes in the use of two vaccines during its Oct. 25-26 meeting in Atlanta. The committee agreed on a provisional recommendation to expand the routine use of quadrivalent human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccine to adolescent boys, and it also voted to recommend the use of hepatitis B vaccine in all adults with diabetes who are younger than age 60 and who have not previously received the vaccine.

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