HPV vaccination for boys? Missed?

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Hi,
Higher education related as my son is off to university in September and I’ve therefore checked his vaccination record and he hasn’t had this one.

Should he get it? I understand it’s given to boys routinely now. Interested to hear what others are doing. Thanks.

I got mine done, on the basis that if he was a year younger the NHS would have done it. Used the one with wider coverage so actually better than the nhs one. Not the easiest decision as a significant part of the nhs motivation is herd protection from cervical, but better not to have general warts and get some throat cancer coverage was my reasoning.

Definitely worth getting for boys. It covers a lot of other cancers for them as well as protecting any future partners.
mine was just young enough to get it, but I would have paid for it had he not.

I believe its given 12-14 years. Not sure if it's worth it after that but definitely worth speaking to your GP or practice nurse if you have one.

Agree, if he’s not yet had any sexual partners definitely worth getting and probably worth getting even if he has. Mine was just young enough to get it on the national vaccine scheme but we'd planned to pay for it if he hadn’t.
Hopefully the herd protection from girls would protect heterosexual boys this age but I’ve seen lots of nasty HPV related head and neck cancers in men in their 40s and 50s in the last decade. All my friends paid for their older boys to have it around 14/15. I think it’s maybe an extra dose (and therefore more expensive!) over this age.

Both my kids got their first dose aged 11 and 2nd one 6 months later. But you can get vaccinated at any time for these, even if you're a woman in your mid 40s.

I think up to 24 years now but definitely check this GP, my son had his at Boots only 2 vaccines now instead of 3 but had 6 months gap then last one. I was thinking he was supposed to have 3 vaccines but they told us only 2 now. He missed at free one is school because they started offering for boys when he was 1 year above and told us we need to go private.

Mine was too old to get it at school but I paid for it when he was 13. A friend said at the time she'd wait til her son was 18 - I'm sure she thought he'd be an innocent til then!

DS was a year too old for NHS so I paid for it when he was 15/16. Herd immunity only applies in countries where there is good uptake & not all countries have a vaccination programme.

Only one dose now if under 24 years old.

Mine had it around 14-15 privately as he was too old for the NHS rollout.

In theory (assuming they are heterosexual) if the majority of girls in that age group are vaccinated they might not have come into contact with hpv even if they had been sexually active, so as contradictory as it sounds, still worth getting.

Think it was born after sep 2006 for getting it on the NHS if heterosexual? Can get it private though

@ Walkaround
Dose keep changing new improvements vaccines everyday, my son had 2 doses from Boots 6 months gap each last dose had was April this year he was 17yr now is 18yr. They expensive but it worth it to have peace of mind was around £185 per dose I paid all up front and get bit of discount.

I’ve obviously dropped a ball on this! I’ll see about getting it done privately.

I found superdrug to be the cheapest

Am now mulling Meninigitis B - anyone have a view on that?

This one is very important to get. The son of a family friend died of this recently and very quickly (in the uk). There's a lot of it.

We had Men B done privately for both DCs too.

Is meningitis B not one of the routine ones? I know there’s one meningitis one? It’s all very confusing! I was on top it when they we were small and it was in my red book but all the teenage stuff was done through school. I’ve just found out my other son had missed his dip/tet booster and a Men one and so he’s going to have those on Friday. Not sure how he missed them. I think he didn’t bring consent forms home. He hasn’t had HPV either and is eligible so we’ll get that on the NHS.

Feel like a bad mum!

Men ACWY is given routinely to teenagers but not Men B

@redfacebigdisgrace Meningitis B immunisation was introduced as routine for children born on or after 1 July 2015, so DC starting university now will not have had it as part of their childhood schedule.

Dip/tet booster might have got missed due to covid lockdowns. We got a letter telling us to book to go to not-very-convenient clinics to get it done, but they also said if we didn't then they'd get it the next year in school. We opted for the latter, since DD is young end of the year anyway. They mopped up those who hadn't yet had it very efficiently with the next cohort, but possibly other areas weren't as well organised. We got all the consent forms electronically.

Slender Rations, in what year was your son vaccinated?

I've heard that in 2019 (the first year that boys started to also be vaccinated against HPV), the NHS would still vaccinate boys over 12 years old.

Just resurrecting this thread as I’ve received an NHS text discussing the HPV vaccination and where I’d like it done and my first thought was - I don’t know if I do want my son to have it. I completely understand how it benefits girls and women in the long run but explain why it benefits the males.

Also protects against some cancers affecting males