HPV vaccination increased substantially during previous decade, especially among men
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Key takeaways:
- HPV vaccination rates among children and young adults increased for both men and women between 2011 and 2020.
- Uptake of HPV vaccine improved for all racial and ethnic populations during the same time frame.
CHICAGO — HPV vaccination rates for children and young adults increased substantially during the 2010s regardless of gender, race or ethnicity, according to findings presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.
Men reduced a 30% gender gap in 2011 to below 15% in 2020, although both genders still fell below 50% uptake.
“Among U.S. adolescents and young adults, HPV vaccination uptake rose by about 20% overall and across all racial/ethnic groups,” Jacqueline Nguyen, DO, of University of Florida, and colleagues wrote. “HPV vaccination uptake accelerated the most among [men] but still lags behind [women], perhaps because routine vaccination wasn’t recommended for [men] until 2011, 5 years after it had been recommended for [women].”
HPV has been linked to multiple oral and anogenital cancers, but those can be prevented through an HPV vaccine, according to background information researchers provided.
The HPV vaccine has been approved for men and women aged 9 to 45 years and has been recommended for individuals aged 9 to 26 years, yet Healio previously reported less than 60% of children between 15 and 17 years old had been vaccinated.
Nguyen and colleagues wanted to evaluate trends in HPV vaccination across multiple subpopulations over an extended period.
They used the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which had four survey cycles between January 2011 and March 2020, to obtain data on individuals aged 9 to 26 years.
The study cohort consisted of 10,927 participants (mean age, 17.4 years; 51.2% women; 54.9% white), which represented 70,066,252 people.
Researchers defined vaccination as a self or parent report of at least one dose.
Overall vaccination in the study cohort increased from 23.3% to 43% over the investigated period (P < .001).
Rates among women rose from 37.7% to 49.4% (P < .001). An even shaper increase occurred among men, with a jump from 7.8% to 36.4% during the study period (P < .001).
Vaccination rates among white, Hispanic, Black, Asian and other populations each rose at least 15%. Hispanic individuals had the largest increase (19.9% to 41.1%) and Black individuals had the smallest (23.7% to 39.6%).
White individuals had the highest vaccination rate among all groups (45.5%).
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Nguyen J, et al. Abstract 10519. Presented at: ASCO Annual Meeting; May 31-June 4, 2024; Chicago.
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