This is the first cohort of folks that age who were offered the HPV vaccine when they were 12 or 13.
Expect even more dramatic results as that group enters their 30s & 40s.
This is the first cohort of folks that age who were offered the HPV vaccine when they were 12 or 13.
Expect even more dramatic results as that group enters their 30s & 40s.
I was part of the first cohort in 2008. There were a number of girls at my school whose parents didn’t give permission, calling it the “slut jab”. I remember boys in our year going round deliberately punching our arms on jab days and calling us slags. At least it was worth it in the end.
Teenaged boys are idiots, but parents really should know better. Or the permission slip should be better at explaining what’s happening.
They knew. They knew that it prevented something that a woman could get during sex. So obviously getting it would just encourage girls to have sex, because they knew they were safe!
Unfortunately, no amount of common sense will get through misogyny