State Strategies to Improve HPV Vaccine Uptake in Pre-Teens and Adolescents

This blog highlights several successful state initiatives to improve routine Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates among adolescents and provide catch-up vaccinations to the estimated one million adolescents who are now behind due to the challenges of the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous negative impact upon these rates since 2020, causing vaccination against HPV to continue to lag behind national benchmarks, leaving adolescents vulnerable to the development of preventable HPV-related cancers.