IMSS Guanajuato Gives HPV Vaccine to Boys for the First Time

The Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) in Guanajuato began to apply the vaccine against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) to 11-year-olds attending the fifth grade of primary school, as part of an expanded prevention strategy. This measure also includes non-schooled males of the same age, as well as adolescents between 12 and 16 years of age who have not received any doses. Vaccination, previously directed exclusively at girls, also contin…