A cross-sectional analysis showed that for the first time since 2013, HPV vaccination initiation did not increase among adolescents aged 13 to 17 years.
About 1 in 5 men globally have at least one kind of high-risk HPV, the analysis finds.
Increases in countries that already had good momentum overshadowed struggles other countries had with regaining lost ground.
Data show 40% of moms and 7% of babies test positive for HPV, and another study highlights why some parents avoid the HPV vaccine for their children.
The study results were announced at the 35th International Papillomavirus Conference in Washington, DC, this week.
Updated recommendations include a single-dose schedule to expand vaccination.
At a World Health Organization (WHO) briefing today, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said Uganda's government is making progress in its battle against Ebola, but he raised concerns about case detections outside the main hot spots.
Machine-learning models created by a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported research team can identify, with high accuracy, patients likely to have long COVID, according to a study yesterday in The Lancet Digital Health.
Recent evidence shows one-dose regimens perform just as well as two- or three-dose schedules.
Two US outbreaks of Salmonella, one S Typhimurium and the other S Infantis, have been linked to Italian-style meats, although none are connected to a specific product or brand yet, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigation notice today.
