An ethical issue that often arises is to determine whether human papilloma virus, HPV vaccination could encourage sexual relations between adolescents who have been vaccinated. This was tackled in an extensive study published in JAMA (175; 617-623,2015), which concluded that “human papilloma virus vaccination was not associated with increases in sexually transmitted infections in a large cohort of females, suggesting that vaccination is unlikely to promote unsafe sexual activity”.
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