Assessment of herd effects among women and heterosexual men after girls-only HPV16/18 vaccination in the Netherlands: a repeated cross-sectional study Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Data on the impact of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination on the population HPV prevalence are largely obtained from women. We assessed the impact of the girls-only HPV16/18 vaccination program in the Netherlands that started in 2009, on trends in HPV prevalence among women and heterosexual men, using data from the PASSYON study. In this cross-sectional study, the HPV prevalence among 16- to 24-year-old visitors to sexually transmitted ...